by Binalakshmi Nepram-Mentschel – India – In July I spoke before the United Nations General Assembly in honor of the tens of thousands of people who have lost their lives to gun violence in my part of the world. The …

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by Binalakshmi Nepram Mentschel – India – Our world is hovering at the edge of an abyss, driven there by man’s unreason. One crisis is cresting on top of another… The sinister developments in the advance towards the brink of …

Paying Homage to Women’s Roles in Peace and Disarmament Read more »

by Binalakshmi Nepram-Mentschel – India – In Part I of Binalakshmi’s report on small arms proliferation, she explores the cultural, political and geographical factors that make North East India a hotbed for the small arms trade. – Ed. Many parts …

Armed Conflict and Small Arms Proliferation in India’s North East – Part II Read more »

by Binalakshmi Nepram-Mentschel – India – The human society is now drifting in the direction of a self-contradictory, multi-layered ‘new middle age”.. a world in which the significance of territoriality declines and the range of the claimed authorities and conflicting …

Armed Conflict and Small Arms Proliferation in India’s North East—Part I Read more »