Three years. Over 250 dead. 60,000 displaced. A Chief Minister who cannot drive to half his state, a Centre that treated Article 355 less as a constitutional responsibility than as an administrative ambiguity¹, and a peace formula consisting of two additional deputy ministers. What follows is neither a catalogue of grievances nor a utopian peace plan. The following ten-point framework is an attempt to identify what can be done now, what will require sustained political will, and what demands a deeper rethinking of the institutions that have failed Manipur . The framework proceeds from people and communities to questions of governance, security, justice, and ultimately the state’s political future. The ten-point framework is comprehensive because it operates across multiple scales simultaneously: individual attitudes, community institutions, constitutional design, governance, security, economics, geopolitics, and accountability. Most discussions on Manipur focus narrowly on law and orde...