Research
Abstracts highlighting new research and information sources on conflict and peace in Pakistan from the Human Security Gateway, a companion website from the Human Security Report Project.
23 June 2011
The Oxford Research Group’s Recording of Casualties of Armed Conflict Project in their first discussion
paper identified all of the elements of the international legal responsibility to identify, bury and record
civilian casualties of armed conflict in the same way as military casualties are treated. The project team
in the second phase of the project has conducted research which involves applying this international
legal obligation to record civilian...
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23 June 2011
Why have the madrasas become a subject of such controversy? What
roles do madrasas play in Pakistani society? What are the main
challenges and opportunities for madrasa reform? Since 11 September
2001, Pakistan’s madrasas have received much attention from the
media, policy analysts and politicians. The bulk of the literature has
asserted strong links between madrasas and militancy. Madrasas have
thus become the focus of a much larger debate on Islam...
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22 June 2011
SOURCE: Pew Research Center
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21 June 2011
The CSIS Program on Crisis, Conflict, and Cooperation (C3), formerly the PCR Project, has studied the link between the rise of nonstate armed groups (or militants, for the sake of simplicity) and the quality of local governance in Afghanistan and Pakistan: whether a link exists and, if so, what the United States can do about it, if anything. This research, based on more than 250 field interviews and an extensive review of published literature, found...
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16 June 2011
The death of Osama bin Laden presents
an important opportunity to reassess
U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Current U.S.
thinking centers on two interests. The first
is preventing al Qaeda and its Taliban allies
from reestablishing a safe haven. The
second is preventing the violence in Afghanistan
from destabilizing Pakistan,
thus putting its nuclear forces at risk and
increasing the likelihood of nuclear terrorism.
Coalition strategy is based on the
assumptions...
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15 June 2011
Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world's most dangerous country for women, with Congo a close second due to horrific levels of rape, a Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll said on Wednesday.
Pakistan, India and Somalia ranked third, fourth and fifth, respectively, in the global survey of perceptions of threats ranging from domestic abuse and economic discrimination to female foeticide, genital mutilation and...
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15 June 2011
From rape and domestic violence to lack of healthcare and education, millions of women experience daily peril, but nowhere more than in the five countries a TrustLaw Women expert poll identifies as the world's most dangerous countries to be female in 2011: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia. SOURCE: TrustLaw...
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15 June 2011
From rape and domestic violence to lack of healthcare and education, millions of women experience daily peril, but nowhere more than in the five countries a TrustLaw Women expert poll identifies as the world's most dangerous countries to be female in 2011: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia.
TrustLaw Women asked 213 gender experts from five continents to rank countries by overall perceptions as well as by six...
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14 June 2011
As part of the Jinnah Institute’s Open Democracy initiative, ‘A Question of Faith’: A Report on the Status of Religious Minorities in Pakistan’ is a research-based analysis of the same. It documents the deterioration in the political, economic and social status of members of these communities in the context of the rising tide of vigilante violence and religious extremism in the country.
Two critical questions are addressed by the findings of this...
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13 June 2011
The Combating Terrorism Center is an independent educational and research institution based in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy, West Point. The CTC Sentinel harnesses the Center’s global network of scholars and practitioners to understand and confront contemporary threats posed by terrorism and other forms of political violence.
This volume contains the following articles:
- The Death of Usama bin Ladin:...
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