Making peace & understanding conflict
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: August 13 2015 -
The history of the world has been replete with stories of war, struggles and victory of communities, people and nations. Historians and observers have noted that all wars eventually culminate with the promise of peace.
All forms of conflict eventually are also resolved as conditioned by the spatial and temporal understanding of peace and reconciliation.
In defeat and in victory, contending parties take succour in certain hopes that there will be sustainable peace.
However, leaders across the world also have reflected on the essential preconditions which could ultimately shape the contours of accords and treaties.
Some of these pacts and agreements may or may not be formally ratified by the people, nations and States.
However, it should be noted that any form of agreement is the precursor of cumulative agreement finally supported and endorsed by the people.
The leaders of all movements and struggles generally play key roles not only to reiterate the objectives of their struggles but also to build sustainable peace.
It has also been equally emphasised that the road to mutual agreement could be further strengthened if only one purged the temptation of dominance and dismantled all preconditions.
Under such circumstances, the signing of peace accord between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim or NSCN (IM) has rescued the diminishing hope in the negotiated deal that has been going on for over of a decade of cease-fire.
The acceptance of the fact that the Naga political issue had lingered on for around six decades taking a huge toll on generations of people, has finally dawned on the powers that be.
While accepting the historical continuum of the desired and undesired events that unfolded, there has also been a realization that all conflicts need to be resolved.
The necessary condition in such deals has been an honest assessment of positions that failed to bridge the gap of understanding.
However, it should be noted that in any attempt to forge a permanent settlement, each of the negotiating parties should expand their horizons in accepting certain realities spawned by complicated histories and exigencies of colonial interests.
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