Searching for peace in central and South Asia
- London Lynne Rienner 2003
- 665p.
This book, 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, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, and a directory of 187 organization working in their field of conflict prevention and peace building in the region. The authors include 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 of part of any peace process. Informative and well-written this volume presents an informed analysis with discussions of strategies to contain or prevent the new scourge of ethnic, religious and ideologically motivated conflict.