The problem of armed separatism : is autonomy the answer? / Michelle Ann Miller -- Mediated constitutionality as a solution to separatism / Damien Kingsbury -- Self-governance as a framework for conflict resolution / Michelle Ann Miller -- Autonomy and armed separatism in Papua : why the Cendrawasih continues to fear the Garuda / Bilveer Singh -- The parallels and the paradox of Timor-Leste and western Sahara / Adérito de Jesus Soares -- Between violence and negotiation : rethinking the Indonesian occupation and the East Timorese resistance / Douglas Kammen -- Struggle over space in Myanmar : expanding state territoriality after the Kachin ceasefire / Karin Dean -- Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict : the autonomy-separation dialectic / Jayadeva Uyangoda -- Unitarianism, separatism and federalism : competing goals and problems of compromise in Sri Lanka / P. Sahadevan -- Autonomy and armed separatism in Jammu and Kashmir / Bibhu Prasad Routray -- Armed conflicts and movements for autonomy in India's northeast / Shanthie Mariet D'Souza -- Southern Thailand : the trouble with autonomy / Duncan McCargo -- The last holdout of an integrated state : a century of resistance to state penetration Southern Thailand / Thomas Parks -- Interlocking autonomy : Manila and Muslim Mindanao / Steven Rood -- History, demography and factionalism : obstacles to conflict resolution through autonomy in the Southern Philippines / Ronald J. May -- Conclusion / Michelle Ann Miller
Summary
Armed separatist insurgencies have created a real dilemma for many national governments of how much freedom to grant aggrieved minorities without releasing territorial sovereignty over the nation state. This book examines different approaches that have been taken by seven states in South and Southeast Asia to try and resolve this dilemma through various offers of autonomy. Providing new insights into the conditions under which autonomy arrangements exacerbate or alleviate the problem of armed separatism, this comprehensive book includes in-depth analysis of the circumstances that lead men and women to take up arms in an effort to remove themselves from the states borders by creating their own independent polity
