Forging peace in the Indian Northeast: The world peace brigade and the Nagaland peace mission, 1964
| When: | Saturday, 30 April 2016 - Saturday, 30 April 2016 |
| Where: | Off campus CISA Committee Room, 36 Jorissen Street, Braamfontein |
| Start time: | 14:00 |
The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa presents a talk by Lydia Walker, PhD-candidate in International History in the Harvard Department of History.
In January 1964, the World Peace Brigade, an international activist organisation, halted its planned march from New Delhi to Peking in Ledo, Assam.
The march was mired in the politics of the Brigade's leaders - J.P. Narayan and Michael Scott - who had offered support to nationalist claimants for an independent Tibet (Narayan) and Nagaland (Scott).
Several months later and 300 kilometres away in Wokha, Nagaland, the Naga Baptist Church invited Narayan and Scott to form the Nagaland Peace Mission to broker a ceasefire between the Indian Government and Naga Nationalists.
Based on recent archival research in the papers of Narayan, Scott, the World Peace Brigade, the Naga Baptist Church, the Naga National council, the Nagaland Peace Mission, and the Indian Government, this project looks at sovereignty from the outside in and the role of international civil society, churches, and interested individuals in the negotiations between states and those claiming that status in a contested territory in the “periphery's periphery”.
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