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Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security in Pakistan

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    Pakistan’s stability: the global stakes

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    Pakistan was born a geopolitical absurdity, having two wings with roughly equal population on opposite sides of South Asia. Today, Pakistan is deemed to be on the wrong side of history.
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    Is Pakistan re-positioning itself in Kashmir?: Islamabad’s five likely strategies

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2010
    There is a renewed Pakistani interest in the Kashmir issue today; thus, from an Indian perspective, it is imperative to trace the path that Pakistan is likely to pursue in terms of exploiting the existing situation in Kashmir valley.
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    Afghanistan- Pakistan- Iran: radical Islam, nuclear weapons and regional security.

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    This paper examines the relationship between political Islam in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan and their quest for nuclear weapons. The author writes, for example, that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal emerges not merely as a national asset giving deterrent capability against a conventionally superior India but also as an Islamic bomb, whose use should be available to the entire Ummah.
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    The crisis state- Pakistan's security dilemma

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2012
    The biggest security challenge that Pakistan is currently facing is in terms of who defines it and against whom? In most of the democratic countries, the political leadership and the Parliament defines the security threats to the State, and the military and intelligence Establishment support the government’s decision.
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    Pakistan’s internal security challenges: will the military cope?

    Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, India, 2013
    The greatest challenge that the new Pakistan government faces is on the national security front; the inability of the Pakistan army to meet internal security challenges effectively is a particularly worrying factor.
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    Strengthening responses to climate variability in South Asia

    International Alert, 2013
    This executive summary is based on the findings from desk and field research conducted by International Alert and the South Asia Network for Security and Climate Change (SANSaC) in nine sub-national locations across Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
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    Water Scarcity in Bangladesh. Transboundary Rivers, Conflict and Cooperation

    2013
    It is often assumed that transboundary water systems are potential sources of conflict that can exacerbate political, social, and economic tensions and cause disputes concerning the distribution, use and management of water.
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    Mediated policy dialogues to address conflict over natural resource governance

    NCCR North South, 2010
    Mistrust and conflict between government departments and local stakeholders form a major barrier to effective natural resource governance in South Asia. In Pakistan, mistrust between forest officials and forest users has led to tension in joint forest management programmes.
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    Rural development in Swat, Pakistan: Understanding food and livelihood security in post-conflict contexts

    Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    In Pakistan, the Norwegian Embassy is supporting several international and local NGOs as well as several UN agencies in humanitarian and development activities in Kyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including Swat.
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    Pakistan: the worsening IDP crisis

    International Crisis Group, 2010
    This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the urgency for relief and rehabilitation, donors may opt to collaborate with the ruling military regime.

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