PPSCR

Dept.of Intl Relation, University of Karachi

Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution

DECEMBER 22-23, 2001 - CONFERENCE ROOM
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI

ABSTRACT

VISION OF SOUTH ASIA 2047: PERCEPTION ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION

NABIA GUL, MARIA SAIFUDDIN, NADIA KHALIL*

                South Asia is considered as one of the most critical regions at the global scenario. Due to a range of entangled conflicts, Conflict Resolution has always been an enigma for South Asian region. In South Asia, the birth was given to twin states with grievances and various political and social ills, which have always shaped a stumbling block in the smooth process of perpetual conflicts in South Asia. The major players of South Asia have made no serious attempt towards the resolution of these grievances and ills. As a consequence, today South Asia is passing through the intense phase of its conflicts.

             Now with changing international political scenario where the discourse is of terrorism, South Asia is in indispensable need of conflict resolution. We are looking for the future of South Asia with an imaginary vision of South Asian conflicts and their resolution in next forty-five years.

            The voyage of South Asia from past to present is so critical that it does not allow its future to be predicted with much or even slight certainty. But even then the unpredictable transitional nature of international political system allows us to predict about the shape of "Conflict Resolution" in South Asia in the year 2047.

           To analyze the paradigms of conflicts and conflict resolution in South Asia and to predict the future notions, this paper will deal with the subject matter in three manners:

1) Conceptual frame work of conflict emergence and conflict resolving theories and approaches with reference to the future vision of South Asia.

2) Nature of inter-state conflicts and future paradigms of conflict resolution in South Asia in the context of future notions.

3) Intra-state conflicts and the paradigms of conflict resolution regarding the social and environmental sufferings.

* Nabia Gul is Research Assistant at USIP/KUIRD Research Project. Maria Saifuddin and Nadia Khalil are former Research Assistants  of USIP/KUIRD Research Project and students of M.A (Final) Department of International Relations, University of Karachi.

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