PEACEWORKS | January – June 2021

Peace and Conflict Studies in South Asia

Changing Perspectives on Peace Studies in South Asia

Exploring Sustainable Peace in Meghalaya

Taliban in Afghanistan and its Implications on Pakistan

Sufi Path of Intercommunity Peacebuilding in India

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Sufi Path of Intercommunity Peacebuilding in India

India is a multicultural society that celebrates diversity and also confronts inter-community conflict. Sometimes the inter-community conflict leads to violence, lynching, looting, mass murders, and communal riots. The study focuses on the Sufi tradition's principles, values, and teachings, which have been effective in reducing inter-community conflict, as well as promote social peace and harmony. The article explores different aspect...

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Taliban in Afghanistan and Its Implications on Pakistan

After 20 years of war, the Taliban has swept to victory in Afghanistan and have outlasted one more superpower. The Taliban’s return to rule brings an end to the decades-long presence of a US led coalitions presence in the country. Taliban’s rule certainly will have consequences that will go well beyond the country’s immediate borders. Pakistan, undoubtedly, would be the most affected country with this passage of power. This p...

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Exploring Sustainable Peace in Meghalaya

This paper emphasizes on issues relating to ethnic disaffection and cultures of governance employed in conflict resolution in Meghalaya. The local political culture offers a range of norms for dialogue and negotiation towards building peace in the region applied especially during rehabilitation process of the surrendered insurgents, their success in procuring a workable and positive peace has been rather inadequate. As a result, minority group...

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Changing Perspectives on Peace Studies in South Asia

Peace Studies in South Asia as a discipline continues to be dominated by Security Studies where peace is considered as only an outcome of the balance of power between the parties involved in conflicts. Every such outcome for obvious reasons is contingent, because the balance that is achieved may be disturbed or even set aside once any of the parties has its reasons to do so. A party might in such cases think that it gains by being engaged in c...

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Peace and Conflict Studies in South Asia

The western claims on democratic peace were further weakened by the failure of international community to pre-empt the genocidal civil war in Rwanda and the acrimonious interventions in the Middle East. Even the doctrine of human security came under criticism in the postcolonial parlance as a new western ploy to re-colonize the Third World. Several South Asian scholars sought transnational partnership to explore a whole range of cross border c...

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