peacebuilding

South Asian Peace in Stockholm

X.T.M25 June 20268 comments
Can India and Pakistan Make Peace?

Major Agha H. Amin’s 2013 article argues that Pakistan’s military desire for peace with India is a tactical response to US pressure over Afghanistan, as with Musharraf’s earlier overtures. The…

Omar Ali17 February 201913 comments
Avtar Singh Khalsa: Lion of Afghanistan

The author profiles Avtar Singh Khalsa, a Sikh member of the Afghan Parliament who reaches out to the Taliban for peace, and quotes a report of a Herat peace meeting,…

AnAn18 June 201865 comments
Will India and Pakistan Learn from the Historic Korea Summit?

X.T.M quotes an article asking whether India and Pakistan can learn from the Korean summit, which suggests resuming sports and cultural exchange, and adds a quibble comparing the two partitioned…

X.T.M30 April 2018115 comments
India-Pakistan people’s peace resolution: Throwing a pebble in the pond

Reports on a peace resolution circulated by Indian and Pakistani activists, seventy years after Partition, urging both governments to improve relations, and quotes its preamble on visas, civilians in conflict…

Brown Pundits Archive22 May 20170 comments
Scott Atran Proposes.. Boy Scout troops??

The author criticises Scott Atran’s proposal of community-based, youth-led ‘peace-building’ as an alternative to ISIS, arguing it is vague and offers no actionable recommendations.

Brown Pundits Archive24 March 20160 comments
“The nation would soon hear good news”

A note on announced direct talks between the Pakistani government and the Taliban, including prisoner swaps, with the poster’s view that the Taliban should at least tolerate the constitution.

Brown Pundits Archive23 March 20140 comments
Ceasefire alert!!

A report that the Pakistani Taliban will observe a one-month ceasefire, with the poster crediting Nawaz Sharif’s shrewdness for wrong-footing Imran Khan and the clerics, while calling congratulations premature.

Brown Pundits Archive2 March 20140 comments
Playing fields of Peshawar

A report on a suicide attack claimed by a militant commander’s spokesman, with the poster saying Peshawar would be the capital of a Taliban emirate and that Chaudhry Nisar’s peace…

Brown Pundits Archive24 February 20140 comments