About the Book: State Environment and Violent Conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts
This book asserts that State discriminatory policy of resettlement of
populations and unequal distribution of resources combined with high population
growth may lead to environmental scarcity and conflict in society. In other
word, environmental scarcity and violence may be linked. However,
environmental-scarcity is not in itself a necessary or sufficient cause of
conflict. Other social factors like political inequality, religious
discrimination may play important role in the instigation of conflict. This book
focuses on the two conflict ridden society, Gaza Strip and Chittagong Hill
Tracts where state discriminatory policy of re-allocation of resources,
population resettlement and high