Ethno Political Conflict In Pakistan

Author : Rizwan Zeb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000729924

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Ethno-political Conflict in Pakistan by Rizwan Zeb Pdf

This book critically examines the causes of the increase in insurgent violence in Balochistan and explores the relations between the national government of Pakistan and the province of Balochistan. Based on historical analysis, the book argues that the national government of Pakistan and the leaders of Balochistan both use a standard narrative when dealing with each other. According to the Baloch narrative, Islamabad exploits Balochistan’s natural resources without giving Balochistan its due share and has never accepted and granted Balochistan equal rights. The centre’s narrative emphasizes the tribal character of the Baloch society and suggests that the Baloch elite hinder Balochistan’s integration with the federation. This book demonstrates that both narratives are inherently flawed and presents a precipitous picture of the problem of insurgent violence. It also shows that the Baloch leadership is divided along tribal lines and lacks a unified voice and proposes that the Baloch elite use the narrative of enduring injustice only as a source of politicization of Baloch ethnicity when an actual or perceived injustice is taking place. An important addition to the literature on ethno-political conflicts, this unique analysis of the importance of narrative in the imagination of political movements will be of interest to scholars in the fields of South Asian studies, ethnic conflicts, separatist and political movements and Asian politics.

Author : Mohammad Waseem
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197654262

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Political Conflict in Pakistan by Mohammad Waseem Pdf

This book is a major reinterpretation of politics in Pakistan. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem critically examines the theory surrounding the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations who practiced mingled faiths, and the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh renaissances that created a twentieth-century clash of communities and led to partition. Political Conflict in Pakistan addresses multiple clashes: between the high culture as a mission to transform society, and the low culture of the land and the people; between those committed to the establishment's institutional constitutional framework and those seeking to dismantle the "colonial" state; between the corrupt and those seeking to hold them to account; between the political class and the middle class; and between civil and military power. The author exposes how the ruling elite centralised power through the militarisation and judicialization of politics, rendering the federalist arrangement an empty shell and thus grossly alienating the provinces. He sets all this within the contexts of education and media as breeders of conflict, the difficulties of establishing an anti-terrorist regime, and the state's pragmatic attempts at conflict resolution by seeking to keep the outsiders inside. This is a wide-ranging account of a country of contestations.

Author : Tahir I. Shad,Jennifer Gray Reddish
Publisher : Department of Political a Fic and Asian Studie
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Culture conflict
ISBN : 0731521579

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Managing Ethnic Conflict by Tahir I. Shad,Jennifer Gray Reddish Pdf

Author : Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415686143

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The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan by Farhan Hanif Siddiqi Pdf

In order to understand the Pakistani state and government's treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operation in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were subject to a military operation after 1971: the Baloch in the 1970s, the Sindhis in the 1980s and Mohajirs in the 1990s. The book critically evaluates the literature on ethnicity and nationalism by taking nationalist ideology and the political divisions which it generates within ethnic groups as essential in estimating ethnic movements. It goes on to challenge the modernist argument that nationalism is only relevant to modern-industrialised socio-economic settings. The available evidence from Pakistan makes clear that ethnic movements emanate from three distinct socio-economic realms: tribal (Baloch), rural (Sindh) and urban (Mohajir), and the book looks at the implications that this has, as well as how further arguments could be advanced about the relevance of ethnic movements and politics in the Third World. It provides academics and researchers with background knowledge of how the Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir ethnic conflict in Pakistan took shape in a historical context as well as probable future scenarios of the relationship between the Pakistani state and government, and ethnic groups and movements.

Author : K. Adeney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230601949

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Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan by K. Adeney Pdf

Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the role of religion. Adeney examines the extent to which previous constitutional choices explain current day conflicts.

Author : Savita Pande
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064106019

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Politics of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Pakistan by Savita Pande Pdf

Pakistan Remains To Be A Treasure Trove Of All The Theoretical Concepts And Their Practice That Social Scientists Can Think About In A Developing Country. It Is A Conglomerate Of Diverse Ethnic Groups Having Various Political, Language, Racial Or Religiou

Author : Rajat Ganguly,Ray Taras
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002547033

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Understanding Ethnic Conflict by Rajat Ganguly,Ray Taras Pdf

Author : Gilles Dorronsoro,Olivier Grojean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190934903

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Identity, Conflict And Politics In Turkey, Iran And Pakistan by Gilles Dorronsoro,Olivier Grojean Pdf

Ethnic and religious identity-markers compete with class and gender as principles shaping the organization and classification of everyday life. But how are an individual's identity-based conflicts transformed and redefined? Identity is a specific form of social capital, hence contexts where multiple identities obtain necessarily come with a hierarchy, with differences, and hence with a certain degree of hostility. The contributors to this book examine the rapid transformation of identity hierarchies affecting Iran, Pakistan and Turkey, a symptom of political fractures, social-economic transformation, and new regimes of subjectification. They focus on the state's role in organizing access to resources, with its institutions often being the main target of demands, rather than competing social groups. Such con- texts enable entrepreneurs of collective action to exploit identity differences, which in turn help them to expand the scale of their mobilization and to align local and national conflicts. The authors also examine how identity-based violence may be autonomous in certain contexts, and serve to prime collective action and transform the relations between communities.

Author : John Coakley
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0714649880

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The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict by John Coakley Pdf

This book makes a comparative study of ethno-national mobilization and territory and corresponding government policies through a series of selected case studies. It examines the role of ethnic groups in dissolving and reconfiguring the state and the institutional options available for dealing with ethnic claims. It does this through a systematic, qualitative analysis from a range of countries in which, in varying degrees, territorial solutions to ethnic conflict have been contemplated. Sound policies aimed at mitigating ethnic tensions, whether partition, territorial or cultural autonomy or limited home rule must be tailored to its ethnic reality. The contributors to this volume begin each case study with an overview of the ethnic problem relevant to the country, analyze its historical roots, examine the range of strategies on which the state authorities responded, and assess the importance of the issue of territory. Each case study is accompanied by a map that shows the distribution of selected groups in terms of standard bands of intensity.

Author : Muhammad Feyyaz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ethnic conflict
ISBN : 9695582303

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Ethnic Conflict in Sindh by Muhammad Feyyaz Pdf

Author : Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher : Ajanta Books International
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015015399333

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Ethnic Conflict in South Asia by Asghar Ali Engineer Pdf

Author : Carsten Wieland
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064779633

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Nation State by Accident by Carsten Wieland Pdf

In this comparative study of Muslim nation-building and the so-called 'ethnic conflicts' the author reveals stunning parallels between the collapse of Tito's Yugoslavia and the ethno-national separation of colonial India. In both cases Muslims ended up in a nation state of their own without the majority of them wanting one. There were no mass movements that demanded a new 'homeland', which contradicts modernisation-theory approaches of nationalism. Wieland digs below the surface and sketches historic developments that triggered the construction and instrumentalisation of 'ethnic groups' in both cases. He concludes that the term ethnicity has lost its academic value because it suffers from inconsistencies and strong political implications. 'Ethnicity' is not an existing group of people but a concept of action and political resource detached from any historic context. The 'ethnocentre' varies. In both the Yugoslavian and the Indian case it was religion around which secondary features were added as contrast boosters. Bosnia and Pakistan were founded under the strong influence of political elites and external political actors, like the colonial power or the international community, who themselves through within the ethno-national paradigm and acted accordingly. This helped to create Muslim nation states despite considerable contradictions between the political action group and the 'ethnic group' they claimed to represent. While delivering convincing facts and new perspectives, this book is a passionate appeal for the deconstruction of 'ethnic' camps.

Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052101185X

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Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict by Andreas Wimmer Pdf

Andreas Wimmer argues that nationalist and ethnic politics have shaped modern societies to a far greater extent than has been acknowledged by social scientists. The modern state governs in the name of a people defined in ethnic and national terms. Democratic participation, equality before the law and protection from arbitrary violence were offered only to the ethnic group in a privileged relationship with the emerging nation-state. Depending on circumstances, the dynamics of exclusion took on different forms. Where nation building was successful , immigrants and ethnic minorities are excluded from full participation; they risk being targets of xenophobia and racism. In weaker states, political closure proceeded along ethnic, rather than national lines and leads to corresponding forms of conflict and violence. In chapters on Mexico, Iraq and Switzerland, Wimmer provides extended case studies that support and contextualise this argument.

Author : Stefan Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805881

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Ethnic Conflict by Stefan Wolff Pdf

Why is it that Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been in perpetual conflict for thirty years when they can live and prosper together elsewhere? Why was there a bloody civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina when Croats, Serbs, and Muslims had lived peacefully side-by-side fordecades? Why did nobody see and act upon the early warning signs of genocide in Rwanda that eventually killed close to a million people in a matter of weeks? What is it that makes Kashmir potentially worth a nuclear war between India and Pakistan?In recent years hardly a day has gone by when ethnic conflict in some part of the world has not made headline news. The violence involved in these conflicts continues to destabilize entire regions, hamper social and economic development, and cause unimaginable human suffering. And the extensivemedia coverage of these conflicts all too often raises important questions that it signally fails to answer.This book aims to fill this gap. Drawing on the author's long experience of studying such conflicts around the world and his involvment in attempts to resolve them, it provides an illuminating and accessible introduction to the origins, dynamics, and management of ethnic conflict. In doing so, ithelps explain the fundamental question underlying all these conflicts: why do nationalism and ethnicity still have such terrible power to turn neighbour against neighbour?

Author : Cynthia H. Enloe
Publisher : Boston : Little, Brown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002233305

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Ethnic Conflict and Political Development by Cynthia H. Enloe Pdf

Monograph on the political aspects of interethnic relations in developed countries and developing countries, with particular reference to the political participation of ethnic groups - discusses the formation of interest groups and political jurisdictions representing ethnic minority groups and communitys, and covers modernization, ethnicity and social change, ideology and ethnic group identity, institutional framework, etc. References.