Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers
Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers

Author: Salman M. A. Salman

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780821353523

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'Conflict and Cooperation on South Asia's International Rivers' traces the development of international water law. This book focuses on the hydro-politics of four countries in the South Asia region: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It analyzes the problems that these countries have encountered as riparians of international rivers and how they have addressed these problems. In particular, this study reviews the treaty regimes governing the Indus River basin, the Ganges River basin, and the Kosi, Gandaki, and Mahakali river basins. Each of these regimes is described in-depth, with special attention devoted to the main problems each of these treaties sought to address. The authors also review the treaty experience and offer observations on bilateralism and multilateralism.

Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict Studies

Author: Anindya Jyoti Majumdar

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2020-08-09

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1000170810

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This volume explores how we theorize, politicize, and practice peace and conflict discourses in the social sciences. As concepts, peace and conflict are intricately interwoven into a web of complementary discourses where states and other actors are able to negotiate, deliberate and arbitrate their differences short of the overt and covert use of physical violence. The essays in this volume reflect this eclecticism: they reflect on concerns of contemporary conflicts in world politics; the dissection of the ideas of peace and power; the way peace studies join with global agencies; peace and conflict in connection to geopolitics and identity; the domestic basis of conflict in India and the South Asian theatre including class, social cleavages and gender. Further they also process elements like globalization, media, communication and films that help us engage with the popular tropes and discursive construction of the reality that play critical roles in how peace and violence are articulated and acted upon by the elites and the masses in societies. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science, international relations theory, peace and conflict studies, public policy and area studies. It will also be a key resource for bureaucrats, policy makers, think tanks and practitioners working in the field of international relations.

The Challenge in South Asia
The Challenge in South Asia

Author: Ponna Wignaraja

Publisher: United Nations University Press

Published: 1989-08-31

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780803996038

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This book reflects the crisis of development, the associated crises of state and its impact on regional cooperation in South Asia. The resulting political and social unrest, violence and militarisation of state structures are considered in detail. The contributors to this volume focus on the depth of the crises and articulate alternatives available and sustainable in the South Asian context -- the common heritage, the renewable resource base and the available stock of knowledge which enlarges the range of technological options.

Conflict and Peace in South Asia
Conflict and Peace in South Asia

Author: Manas Chatterji

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2008-10-13

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0444531769

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South Asia is a distinct geographical entity comprised of seven countries - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives (situated in the Indian Ocean). This book looks at these countries in a historical context, from inter-regional and international perspectives.

Internal Conflict and Regional Security in South Asia
Internal Conflict and Regional Security in South Asia

Author: Shiva Hari Dahal

Publisher: United Nations Publications UNIDIR

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13:

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The South Asia region is one of the most populous and ethnically diverse in the world, but its social, political and economic development has been severely hindered by numerous inter-state and intra-state conflicts. This paper seeks to provide a more effective multidimensional framework for the analysis and management of internal conflict and security issues in this region, through the establishment of 'Peace Commissions'. These bodies could operate at national and regional levels in a similar manner to a human rights commission in order to establish effective institutional mechanisms to resolve social and political differences and so avoid violent conflict.