AIZAWL, July 1 (NNN): “Peace is the eternal and substantive fact of human life. Violence is only an aberration. The basic foundation of all four main religions of the world - Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and Buddhism is peace. The peace that is universal, peace for humanity at large. Indian politico-cultural tradition was built on the foundation of love, brotherhood and peace,” said Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla while delivering speech at a ‘National Seminar on Peace & Development in Mizoram : Challenges & Prospects’ held in Aizawl on Thursday.
Dwelling at length about violence which is the anti-thesis to all great values of life, the Mizo chief minister said that one needs to look deeper into the psychological, ideological and socio-economic causes that have prompted people to resort to violent agitation avowedly to get their grievances redressed. Particularly talking about the various conflicts witnessed in the North East for decades, he said that the reason in North East is different. “The projected goal is to preserve ethnic identities, perceived to be in danger of being swamped by culture alien to the people, and to undo the alleged wrong done to them by years of neglect with the resultant economic deprivation”, Lal Thanhawla said. He further said though the fear or the sense of deprivation may be genuine but the methods adopted to express it are not acceptable to the civilized society, said Lal Thanhawla.
Highlighting the reason for many troubles and turmoil that have been plaguing the region and straining the national fabric, Lal Thanhawla said that lack of proper appreciation of the social, political and demographic peculiarities of the region is to a large extent, responsible.
The seminar was jointly organised by Zoram Research Foundation, in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research – North Eastern Region and Mizoram University.
Dwelling at length about violence which is the anti-thesis to all great values of life, the Mizo chief minister said that one needs to look deeper into the psychological, ideological and socio-economic causes that have prompted people to resort to violent agitation avowedly to get their grievances redressed. Particularly talking about the various conflicts witnessed in the North East for decades, he said that the reason in North East is different. “The projected goal is to preserve ethnic identities, perceived to be in danger of being swamped by culture alien to the people, and to undo the alleged wrong done to them by years of neglect with the resultant economic deprivation”, Lal Thanhawla said. He further said though the fear or the sense of deprivation may be genuine but the methods adopted to express it are not acceptable to the civilized society, said Lal Thanhawla.
Highlighting the reason for many troubles and turmoil that have been plaguing the region and straining the national fabric, Lal Thanhawla said that lack of proper appreciation of the social, political and demographic peculiarities of the region is to a large extent, responsible.
The seminar was jointly organised by Zoram Research Foundation, in collaboration with Indian Council of Social Science Research – North Eastern Region and Mizoram University.
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