Naga Mothers Association (NMA) in Peace Process: A Gender Perspective on Peace and Conflict Resolution

This paper will look at the Naga Mothers Association (NMA) to understand the role they have played in the larger question of bringing peace in the state. The context and situations of their emergence and their location will be looked at. NMA have battled serious social and law-and-order problems in the Northeast and especially in Nagaland when the state was ravaged by violence and conflict since 1990’s. The NMA’s identity of not just as women but as ‘Mothers’ needs to be critically articulated and interrogated. The control of customary practices and laws and peace process role of the Naga women will be looked at.