Conflict and education in Manipur: A comparative analysis

Komal Singha
Additional contact information
Komal Singha: Institute for Social and Economic Change

No 305, Working Papers from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

Abstract: Conflict, violence and social upheaval have been the greatest threats to mankind since the dawn of civilisation. Poorest communities, children and education sector are among the most severely affected by conflicts, especially in the developing countries. Understandably, education is considered as the cornerstone of socio-economic and cultural development of a society/country. Manipur, one of the India’s north-eastern States, has been facing different forms of conflicts for long, ranging from insurgency to secessionist movement; from terrorism to ethnic clashes, and the fight over resources. Having realised the gravity of the issue, the present study tries to assess degree of educational development the state could achieve despite the lingering conflicts in the State. An attempt is also made to ascertain whether the growth of education tends to curtail conflict or conflict tends to restrain educational development. With the help of primary and secondary data, as also by comparing growth trends between variables of conflict and education, the study has found that conflict does not affect educational growth in the State, but it makes children to out-migrate for their studies. In the recent past, though conflict is at its peak point (stalemate) educational development level has not suffered but has grown at a faster rate than in earlier times in the State. Based on Brahm’s inverted U shape conflict hypothesis, the State is expected to return to normalcy and enjoy a peaceful and developed life very shortly.

Keywords: Education-Manipur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2013
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.isec.ac.in/WP%20305%20-%20Komol%20Singha_1.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 500 Can't connect to www.isec.ac.in:443 (Bad file descriptor) (http://www.isec.ac.in/WP%20305%20-%20Komol%20Singha_1.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.isec.ac.in/WP%20305%20-%20Komol%20Singha_1.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sch:wpaper:305

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by B B Chand ().