ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the justification of the concept of government of peace, and analyses how the interrelations of social governance, peace-building, and security are congealed. It describes the process of the introduction of this counter-insurgency measure by the Indian Army and the development of a particular kind of security-oriented thinking among Indian military thinkers and generals in the wake of the Malayan counter-insurgency experiences of the British. The book argues that only a process of sustained ethnic reconciliation and ensuring social justice is the key to restoring social peace and political stability, and solving a complicated ethnic conflict that has developed over several decades. It discusses the introduction of new forms and technologies of governance in a 'post-conflict' society that makes the older regime of rights, to say the least, uncertain and renders it in a Foucauldian sense a conflict-ridden effect of power-knowledge relations.
