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Sri Lankas Post-conflict Peacebuilding Efforts and
Prospects for Positive
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Ajith Balasooriya © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3
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This paper examines the manner in which the Sri Lankan government is
proceeding with its post-conflict peacebuilding efforts to achieve positive
peace at the end of the conflict. It attempts to provide narratives on the
governments role in post-conflict peacebuilding as the responsible primary
representative of the citizens of Sri Lanka. The first part of the paper describes
the governments post-conflict efforts including immediate humanitarian
assistance, reconstruction and rehabilitation and mechanisms for addressing
human rights violations and accountability issues to achieve the ultimate goal
of positive peace... |
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Maoist Peace Process in Nepal: A Way Forward for
India?
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Nida Naz © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3
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This paper explores the Nepali Maoists decision to give up their armed
struggle and opt for peaceful democratic means to seek the changes they had
been striving for. By juxtaposing the Maoist conflicts in India and Nepal, it
seeks to answer the question if lessons from the Nepali experience have any
relevance to the situation in India. It argues that despite a number of inherent
differences there still are a few measures in the Nepali peace process that can
be used for peaceful democratic settlement of the Maoist conflict in India... |
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Political Economy of Tehrik-i-Taliban Swat
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Muhammad Feyyaz © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3
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The recent insurgency in Swat presents a novel case study of a conflict that
appears to have begun with socio-political aims but soon mutated into one in
which economic benefits became paramount. The terror campaign by Tehrike-
Taliban Swat (TTS), characterized by shifting religio-political motives,
raising of phenomenal organisational structure and interest-centric regulation
of violence, manifests the entire spectrum of political economy of an armed
conflict. This study is an attempt to narrate and analyze how the entire
operation was articulated and strategized by TTS... |
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Bonn Conference 2011: Prospects for Peace and
Stability in Afghanistan
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Safdar Sial and Abdul Basit © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 3
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This paper attempts to explore the promise Bonn-II holds for peace and
stability in Afghanistan and the wider region. It tries to find answers to four
main questions: Why hold Bonn-II conference? What was achieved after
Bonn-I? What can and cannot be achieved through Bonn-II? And finally, what
needs to be achieved? There have been many positive and negative
developments between Bonn-I and the upcoming Bonn-II, but many political
analysts consider the 2001 Bonn agreement a failure as far as political conflict
and security are concerned... |
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Politics of Radicalization and De-radicalization:
Impact on Pakistans
Security Dynamics
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By
Salma Malik © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2
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The lack of consensus on the raison detre of the state has gradually caused
Pakistan to drift towards its current state of affairs where it is faced with
extreme dichotomy between the moderates and the orthodox. In the 63 years of
the countrys existence, the invocation to religion has moved from the personal
domain to the mainstream body politic of the state, which now haunts it in the
form of terrorism, militancy and extremist manifestations. The appeal towards
religion and religiosity in the country grew together with deterioration in
governance and the political state of affairs... |
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Modes and Scale of Conflict in Pakistan"s Swat
Valley (1989-2008)
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By
Khadim Hussain © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2
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This paper investigates the modes and scale of conflict in Pakistans Swat
valley between 1989 and 2008 on the basis of primary data. The primary data
includes field work (participantsobservations), structured interviews with a
stratified sampling of 350 respondents in the seven sub-districts of Swat, and
analysis of official documents. The study brings home a clear pattern of
conflict in Swat by identifying four overlapping and intertwining factors. The
first factor is the socio-cultural dynamics of otherization and marginalization
with special reference to gender and power relationship, the shift in religious
authority and recognition of the landless ethnic Gujars and Ajars, besides the
clergy... |
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The Process of Radicalization: Contextualizing the
Case of Pakistan
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By
Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2
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Radicalization encompasses the entire spectrum of extreme responses that
contextualize terrorism in Pakistan. It is widely agreed that although
radicalization predisposes socio-political violence it does not necessarily have
to necessitate it. There is nonetheless a commonly observed tendency to
conceive of radicalization in terms of ideology alone. This is the contextual
paradigm of ideology that resonates within paradigms of terrorism in
Pakistan, wherein the terrorists have used a reductionist worldview to whittle
down complex socio-economic, geostrategic and political problems, into
essentially a contest between good and evil... |
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State-building in Afghanistan: Are Reforms
Sustainable?
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By
Umar Riaz © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2
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Afghanistan is a country most studied but least understood in conflict and
post-conflict settings. This paper attempts to analyze the sustainability of
ongoing political, security and economic reforms in view of the inherent
structural fault lines and conflict drivers, which have been entrenched in the
Afghan statecraft through decades of conflict. The paper identifies these
sources of conflict and examines the viability and coverage of post-Taliban
reforms and concludes that the reforms have failed to build the legitimacy,
capacity and effectiveness of Afghan institutions to sustain the reforms once
the international forces leave the country and foreign aid dries up. |
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Pakistans Relations with Central Asian States:
Irritants and Challenges
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By
Farhat Asif © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1
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Despite high hopes Pakistan is yet to translate the huge potential in trade and
economic collaboration with the Central Asian republics into concrete
progress. That is partly because of the many irritants and challenges that have
cast a long shadow on mutual relations. One of the main geographical
impediments has been the lack of a direct land connection between Pakistan
and these post-Soviet republics. Instability in Afghanistan, FATA and
Balochistan are also crucial factors in realization of the potential. |
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Analysis of Peace Agreements with Militants and
Lessons for the Future
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Sohail Habib Tajik © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1
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Since 2004, Pakistan has concluded a number of peace agreements with
militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province in the hope of addressing unrest there. Each time this hope has been dashed due to one reasons or another. This paper
endeavors to highlight the circumstances in which these peace deals were
signed. The broader perspective in which such agreements were made as well
as review of various clauses of peace agreements highlight the drawbacks of
these agreements... |
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Pak-Afghan Relations: Emerging Trends and Future
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Safdar Sial © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1
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This paper analyzes the emerging trends and future prospects for Pakistan-
Afghanistan relations. It elaborates the implications of Pak-Afghan ties for the
counter-terrorism campaign and reduction in violence and insecurity in the
two countries in particular and the wider region in general. |
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Prospects for Pak-China Relations in 2011:
Political, Militant and Public Views
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Nida Naz © 2011. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1
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The friendly ties between Pakistan and China span 60 years. Despite the close
relations, a number of factors demand close introspection to analyze the
future course and direction of bilateral ties. In this regard, assessing the views
of Pakistans mainstream, nationalist and religious-political parties, militant
organizations and the public in general towards ties with China is very
important. This paper examines these views in order to determine the level of
political and socio-economic support in Pakistan for long-term strategic
relations with China... |
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Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan: A Global Threat
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Khuram Iqbal © 2010. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 3, Issue 4
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Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has undergone radical transformation since
its inception in December 2007. An entity that was formed to safeguard and
strengthen Afghan Talibans movement against the foreign forces in
Afghanistan is gradually enhancing its global profile through its aggressive
propaganda against the West in general and the US in particular. This paper
seeks to measure the scale of global threat posed by TTP through a close
observation and analysis of the post-9/11 shifts in the links between Afghan
Taliban, Al Qaeda and Pakistani Taliban... |
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Understanding FATA
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Syed Manzar Abbas Zaidi © 2010. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 3, Issue 4
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Islam as a religion of peace is being overshadowed by the Islam of politics.
This political variant is the struggle of the small tribal clique of the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) against the state, which, they feel, has
marginalized them. The society is divided into tribes in FATA; the number is
around 400 if all sub-clans are counted. Pashtunwali is the pre-Islamic Pashtun
code of conduct whose effects on social dynamics in FATA have sometimes
been exaggerated. FATA is an extremely poor area by any comparison... |
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A Progressive Understanding of Pashtun Social
Structures amidst Current Conflict
in FATA
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Brian R. Kerr © 2010. Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
A PIPS Research Journals of Conflict and Peace Studies, Volume 3, Issue 4
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The conflict in FATA has global ramifications. Many terrorist attacks in the
West have been logistically or ideologically linked to Pakistans tribal areas.
In recent years, there has been a shift in the US and Pakistani policies towards
the region, with a greater emphasis on gaining the allegiances of the local
population, a strategy crucial for a successful counterinsurgency. Historically,
the Pashtun tribes of FATA have largely been left to their local political and
administrative structures. However, the institution of jirga as well as the
individual positions of power such as maliks, mullahs, and tribal elders have
experienced significant consequences as a result of the ongoing wave of
violence in FATA... |
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