Community Participation in Border Management

Om Shankar Jha

Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from November 2005 to June 2009 Joined IDSA November 2007 – June 2009 Expertise Counter Terrorism, Counter Insurgency, Border Management, International Policing… Continue reading Community Participation in Border Management read more

India’s territorial borders, both land and sea, suffer from diverse physical, ethnic and cultural contradictions. While the state has a major role in securing war frontier, the populations along territorial peripheries, too, can play an important role in securing our interests. The people living in these areas are the most important ingredient towards a secure and safe border area. This would entail reconceptualising the concept of border guarding to effective border management, where local people became the centre of gravity of all actions. The border guarding forces have to evolve ways and means to mainstream the local population in the management of the border areas.

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