ABSTRACT
In a post-colonial democratic structure, social governance emerges crucial as a form of governance in relations to conflict management, especially in a conflict economy. With its origin in Western-style mass democracy and market system, social governance has evolved into a system that has multiple trajectories. The post-colonial states have addressed demands for justice through the axis of development and in a neoliberal world that has meant the growth of market economy, urbanism and capital accumulation in tandem with massive infrastructural changes. That has, in turn, created occasion for a massive transfer of resources necessitating new logistical apparatus. The logistical spaces that were used as conduits were the favoured spaces. This caused a massive increase in governmental expenditure, and the beneficiaries were a chosen few. In this circuitous mode of development capitalism, induction of new groups became a necessity when older groups were no longer pacified. One can see this phenomenon emerging in large sections of the North-East India. Certain sections of the population became the new beneficiaries with new logistical expansions. This was not without a cost. The new beneficiaries were benefited through new logistical processes of power sharing at the cost of their radicalism in protest movements. It is within this context that the article examines new forms of disruption of new logistical apparatus in the North-East. Although we will attempt to study the emerging concerns, mostly the societies in Nagaland and Manipur; contemporary techniques of social governance, forms of resistance and negotiation; alliances and interface of multiple organisations with the state – whether this will lead to empowerment or disempowerment?; subjects of conflict governance – women, footloose labour, migrants, role of humanitarian organisations and policy responses in the background of past conflicts and present political mobilisations.
