ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the detailed references to events in Punjab including the Punjab Accord, events that followed the Accord, and how deaths put the seal of approval on the Accord, in order to point out the general direction that peace accords have taken in this region. Hostage to the vagaries of statecraft, and therefore hospitable to the idea that 'peace with justice' is impossible the accord remains the 'other' to both war party and peace party. Peace is not then a space to enjoy rights; it is a space to monitor quarrels, to limit, to manage conflict, to integrate conflicts with the nationalized society. The theory of governmentality thus shows how various elements constitute the process of power/the process of peace. Yet there is more to the politics of accord perched precariously on the process of power and process of peace.
