Spatial-Horizontal Inequality and the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

Spatial horizontal inequality and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal

The Maoist insurgency in Nepal is one of the highest intensity internal conflicts in recent times. Investigation into the causes of the conflict would suggest that grievance rather than greed is the main motivating force. The concept of horizontal or inter-group inequality, with both an ethnic and caste dimension, is highly relevant in explaining the Nepalese civil war. There is also a spatial ...

" Spatial Point Process Analysis of Maoist Insurgency in India " Spatial Point Process Analysis of Maoist Insurgency in India

Maoist insurgency is considered as the single largest internal security challenge ever faced by India since its independence. Our initial analysis showed that the intensity of Maoist insurgency was high in those districts of Chattishgarh where both the education and income index components of human development index were low. This analysis concur with recent UNESCO report “Education under attac...

The Maoist people's war and conservation in Nepal.

Civil wars are frequent in lesser-developed nations, wherein is harbored a disproportionate share of the world's biodiversity. These wars have had serious detrimental effects, direct and indirect, on conservation programs. From 2001 to 2005, we conducted site visits, personal interviews, and document searches bearing upon this problem as exemplified by Nepal's ongoing Maoist insurgency. Cases o...

Explaining the Success of the Nepal Communist Party-maoist (ncp-m) in Nepal: a Comparison of Maoist Insurgencies in the 21st Century

Renewable Natural Resource Shocks and Conflict Intensity: Findings from India’s Ongoing Maoist Insurgency

An interesting stream of the civil conflict literature has identified an important subset of civil conflicts with disastrous consequences, that is, those that emerge as a consequence of shocks to renewable natural resources like land and water. This literature is, however, reliant on qualitative case studies when claiming a causal relationship leading from renewable resource shocks to conflict....