Conflict And Peace In South Asia

Author : Anindya Jyoti Majumdar,Shibashis Chatterjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000170818

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Peace and Conflict Studies by Anindya Jyoti Majumdar,Shibashis Chatterjee Pdf

This volume explores how we theorize, politicize, and practice peace and conflict discourses in the social sciences. As concepts, peace and conflict are intricately interwoven into a web of complementary discourses where states and other actors are able to negotiate, deliberate and arbitrate their differences short of the overt and covert use of physical violence. The essays in this volume reflect this eclecticism: they reflect on concerns of contemporary conflicts in world politics; the dissection of the ideas of peace and power; the way peace studies join with global agencies; peace and conflict in connection to geopolitics and identity; the domestic basis of conflict in India and the South Asian theatre including class, social cleavages and gender. Further they also process elements like globalization, media, communication and films that help us engage with the popular tropes and discursive construction of the reality that play critical roles in how peace and violence are articulated and acted upon by the elites and the masses in societies. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science, international relations theory, peace and conflict studies, public policy and area studies. It will also be a key resource for bureaucrats, policy makers, think tanks and practitioners working in the field of international relations.

Author : Manas Chatterji,B. M. Jain
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849505345

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Conflict and Peace in South Asia by Manas Chatterji,B. M. Jain Pdf

South Asia is a distinct geographical entity comprised of seven countries - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives (situated in the Indian Ocean). This book looks at these countries in a historical context, from inter-regional and international perspectives.

Author : Minoru Mio,Kazuya Nakamizo,Tatsuro Fujikura
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000331363

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The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia by Minoru Mio,Kazuya Nakamizo,Tatsuro Fujikura Pdf

This book engages with the concept, true value, and function of democracy in South Asia against the background of real social conditions for the promotion of peaceful development in the region. In the book, the issue of peaceful social development is defined as the conditions under which the maintenance of social order and social development is achieved – not by violent compulsion but through the negotiation of intentions or interests among members of society. The book assesses the issue of peaceful social development and demonstrates that the maintenance of such conditions for long periods is a necessary requirement for the political, economic, and cultural development of a society and state. Chapters argue that, through the post-colonial historical trajectory of South Asia, it has become commonly understood that democracy is the better, if not the best, political system and value for that purpose. Additionally, the book claims that, while democratization and the deepening of democracy have been broadly discussed in the region, the peace that democracy is supposed to promote has been in serious danger, especially in the 21st century. A timely survey and re-evaluation of democracy and peaceful development in South Asia, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of South Asian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies and Asian Politics and Security.

Author : Priyankar Upadhyaya,Samrat Schmiem Kumar
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 938299355X

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Peace and Conflict by Priyankar Upadhyaya,Samrat Schmiem Kumar Pdf

Author : P. R. Chari,Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema,Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815713869

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Four Crises and a Peace Process by P. R. Chari,Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema,Stephen P. Cohen Pdf

India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the last of three major wars in 1971. Far from peaceful, however, the period since then has been "one long crisis, punctuated by periods of peace." The long-disputed Kashmir issue continues to be both a cause and consequence of India-Pakistan hostility. Four Crises and a Peace Process focuses on four contained conflicts on the subcontinent: the Brasstacks Crisis of 1986–1987, the Compound Crisis of 1990, the Kargil Conflict of 1999, and the Border Confrontation of 2001–2002. Authors P.R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, and Brookings senior fellow Stephen P. Cohen explain the underlying causes of these crises, their consequences, the lessons that can be learned, and the American role in each. The four crises are notable because any one of them could have escalated to a large-scale conflict, or even all-out war, and three took place after India and Pakistan had gone nuclear. Looking for larger trends of peace and conflict in the region, the authors consider these incidents as cases of attempted conflict resolution, as instances of limited war by nuclear-armed nations, and as examples of intervention and engagement by the United States and China. They analyze the reactions of Indian, Pakistani, and international media and assess the two countries' decision-making processes. Fo ur Crises and a Peace Process explains how these crises have affected regional and international policy and evaluates the prospects for lasting peace in South Asia.

Author : Priyankar Upadhyaya,Samrat Schmiem Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Peace
ISBN : 9384463078

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Peace and Conflict by Priyankar Upadhyaya,Samrat Schmiem Kumar Pdf

Author : Shiva Hari Dahal
Publisher : United Nations Publications UNIDIR
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015060544494

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Internal Conflict and Regional Security in South Asia by Shiva Hari Dahal Pdf

The South Asia region is one of the most populous and ethnically diverse in the world, but its social, political and economic development has been severely hindered by numerous inter-state and intra-state conflicts. This paper seeks to provide a more effective multidimensional framework for the analysis and management of internal conflict and security issues in this region, through the establishment of 'Peace Commissions'. These bodies could operate at national and regional levels in a similar manner to a human rights commission in order to establish effective institutional mechanisms to resolve social and political differences and so avoid violent conflict.

Author : Raṇabīra Samāddāra,Helmut Reifeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015051760901

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Peace as Process by Raṇabīra Samāddāra,Helmut Reifeld Pdf

Peace As A Political Value Is The Fundamental Strain Of This Book. Basing Itself On Essays Of Differential Nature, Method, Perspective And Strain, The Volume Attempts To Convey The Idea That Peace Studies Can Not Be Monolithic, And That Critical Peace Studies Will Have To Eschew The Absolute Polarities Of Realism And Ethics. It Is Only Contesting All Values Of Authority By Valorizing Dialogue, That Peace Acquires Its Own Value.

Author : Omprakash Mishra,Sucheta Ghosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)
ISBN : UOM:39015052957662

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Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict in South Asian Region by Omprakash Mishra,Sucheta Ghosh Pdf

Terrorism and low intensity conflicts are not new in South Asia but the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States suddenly gave the events a new dimension. From regional considerations, terrorism acquired global connotation and in this changed perspective, South Asian terrorism and low intensity conflicts needed to be explored afresh. The geographical region covered by the book includes predominantly the member countries of SAARC, Afghanistan and Myanmar, as also specific case studies including a few instances of terrorist activities from beyond the region. The papers analyse the societal, political and economic factors responsible for the rise and salience of terrorism; the challenges posed by terrorism and low intensity conflict on peace, stability and security of the nation-states and people; the international, regional and national regime against terrorism and perpetrators of mass violence; the motives, ideologies, strategies and activities of various non-state armed groups in South Asia; and thereby contribute toward meaningful policy options in tackling terrorism and activities of armed groups.

Author : Rita Manchanda
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053525294

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Women, War and Peace in South Asia by Rita Manchanda Pdf

Perhaps the first to develop a gender analysis of conflict in South Asia, this volume challenges the centrality of men s experiences and theorisations of conflict. Instead, it focuses on women s experiences as representing alternative and non-violent ways negotiating the construction of conflictual identities and on women s perspectives which privilege the notion of a just peace. This vital and timely contribution to an understanding of women s neglected yet crucial role in times of war and peace highlights the way in which women manage survival and reconstruction. It will interest students and scholars of gender studies, conflict and peace studies, political science and psychology as well as the lay reader .

Author : Monique Mekenkamp,Paul van Tongeren,Hans van de Veen
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588260720

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Searching for Peace in Central and South Asia by Monique Mekenkamp,Paul van Tongeren,Hans van de Veen Pdf

Continuing a widely acclaimed series, Searching for Peace in Central and South Asia provides critical background information, up-to-date surveys of the violent conflicts in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Ferghana Valley, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Tajikistan, and a directory of more than 150 organizations working in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the region. The book includes detailed, objective descriptions of ongoing activities, as well as assessments of future prospects for conflict resolution, focusing on efforts to make civil society an integral part of any peace process.

Author : Shaheen Rafi Khan
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415476737

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Regional Trade Integration and Conflict Resolution by Shaheen Rafi Khan Pdf

Explores the linkage between trade, peace and conflict in South America, Southern Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia. Highlights the significance of regional trade agreements for peace building between the countries.

Author : M. Webb,A. Wijeweera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137397447

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The Political Economy of Conflict in South Asia by M. Webb,A. Wijeweera Pdf

Destructive conflicts have thwarted growth and development in South Asia for more than half a century. This collection of multi-disciplinary essays examines the economic causes and consequences of military conflict in South Asia from a variety of perspectives embracing fiscal, social, strategic, environmental and several other dimensions.

Author : Rafiq Dossani,Henry S. Rowen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804750858

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Prospects for Peace in South Asia by Rafiq Dossani,Henry S. Rowen Pdf

Dossani's book addresses the largely hostile, often violent relations between India and Pakistan that date from their independence in 1947.

Author : John Braithwaite,Bina D'Costa
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781760461904

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Cascades of Violence by John Braithwaite,Bina D'Costa Pdf

As in the cascading of water, violence and nonviolence can cascade down from commanding heights of power (as in waterfalls), up from powerless peripheries, and can undulate to spread horizontally (flowing from one space to another). As with containing water, conflict cannot be contained without asking crucial questions about which variables might cause it to cascade from the top-down, bottom up and from the middle-out. The book shows how violence cascades from state to state. Empirical research has shown that nations with a neighbor at war are more likely to have a civil war themselves (Sambanis 2001). More importantly in the analysis of this book, war cascades from hot spot to hot spot within and between states (Autesserre 2010, 2014). The key to understanding cascades of hot spots is in the interaction between local and macro cleavages and alliances (Kalyvas 2006). The analysis exposes the folly of asking single-level policy questions like do the benefits and costs of a regime change in Iraq justify an invasion? We must also ask what other violence might cascade from an invasion of Iraq? The cascades concept is widespread in the physical and biological sciences with cascades in geology, particle physics and the globalization of contagion. The past two decades has seen prominent and powerful applications of the cascades idea to the social sciences (Sunstein 1997; Gladwell 2000; Sikkink 2011). In his discussion of ethnic violence, James Rosenau (1990) stressed that the image of turbulence developed by mathematicians and physicists could provide an important basis for understanding the idea of bifurcation and related ideas of complexity, chaos, and turbulence in complex systems. He classified the bifurcated systems in contemporary world politics as the multicentric system and the statecentric system. Each of these affects the others in multiple ways, at multiple levels, and in ways that make events enormously hard to predict (Rosenau 1990, 2006). He replaced the idea of events with cascades to describe the event structures that 'gather momentum, stall, reverse course, and resume anew as their repercussions spread among whole systems and subsystems' (1990: 299). Through a detailed analysis of case studies in South Asia, that built on John Braithwaite's twenty-five year project Peacebuilding Compared, and coding of conflicts in different parts of the globe, we expand Rosenau's concept of global turbulence and images of cascades. In the cascades of violence in South Asia, we demonstrate how micro-events such as localized riots, land-grabbing, pervasive militarization and attempts to assassinate political leaders are linked to large scale macro-events of global politics. We argue in order to prevent future conflicts there is a need to understand the relationships between history, structures and agency; interest, values and politics; global and local factors and alliances.