Description
Sexual violence against women in India continues to pose a major challenge to ideas of equality and social justice, especially for ethno-racial minorities from the Eastern Himalayan borderlands. These spaces are further complicated by prolonged histories of Colonisation and the post colonial processes of Nationalism and Militarisation. In the absence of a discourse and policy framework to address the everyday insecurities of women emerging from gendered racism tied to these histories, ideas of sustainable peace and justice remains a distant reality. This paper proposes developing a theoretical framework introducing a critical race feminist perspection to address race, gender and exclusion with implications for policu framework premised upon logic of social justice and inclusion for long term stability and peace.
