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Over the past three decades, in the shadow of hostile nationalisms fuelled by radical Islamic and Hindu politics, military crises, a runaway arms race, nuclear weapons and war, an amazing set of civil society initiatives has been taking root in India and Pakistan. A citizens diplomacy movement embracing thousands of activists, scholars, business people and retired government officials has emerged in an unprecedented effort to build national and cross-border networks for peace and cooperation between the two countries. In these essays, leading scholars, activists and writers from India and Pakistan reflect on the political and personal impact of crossing the border, and exploring the possibilities and limits of this new movement in its quest to chart a path to peace between the two countries.
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Author(s)/Editor(s) Smitu Kothari (1950-2009) was one of India s leading scholar-activists. He was director of Lokayan, New Delhi, and co-editor of the Lokayan Bulletin, a journal of political, cultural and ecological struggles in South Asia. He founded Intercultural Resources, a forum for research and political intervention on the impacts and alternatives to destructive development. He was a visiting professor at Cornell University and at Princeton University. Zia Mian is a physicist from Pakistan at Princeton University s Program on Science and Global Security, and a visiting fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He has written extensively on nuclear weapons issues and is active in the South Asian and global peace movement. He teaches at Princeton University and has taught at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He is affiliated with the Eqbal Ahmad Foundation. In 2001, Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian co-edited Out of the Nuclear Shadow, a collection of essays challenging the nuclearisation of India and Pakistan.
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- PublisherOrient Blackswan
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 8125038302
- ISBN 13 9788125038306
- BindingPaperback
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Bridging Partition : Peoples Initiatives for Peace Between India and Pakistan
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ISBN 10: 8125038302
ISBN 13: 9788125038306
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. Contents Acknowledgements. Introduction/Smitu Kothari and Zia Mian. I. Taking the lead 1. The Pakistan India Peace Process/Mubashir Hasan. 2. (Ad)ventures of Friendship/Sumanta Banerjee. II. Personal/historical journeys 3. People to people contact/Kuldip Nayar. 4. Reflecting peace/Anand Patwardhan. 5. Finding roots and references in South Asia/I.A. Rehman. 6. Diary from a peace march/Sandeep Pandey and Sanat Mohanty. 7. A Pakistani looks at India/Pervez Hoodbhoy. III. Women education and labour 8. A quarter century of building bridges/Kamla Bhasin. 9. Women's role in building peace/Beena Sarwar. 10. Dismantling prejudice the challenges for education/Lalita Ramdas. 11. A troubled peace/Jamila Verghese. 12. Situating labour's Struggle for peace and development/Karamat Ali. IV. Culture 13. Jottings by an original Lahoran/Nirupama Dutt. 14. India Pakistan relations in the context of cinema's Hindustan/Narendra Panjwani. 15. Crossing borders through the performing arts/Sheema Kirmani. 16. Changing hearts through theatre/Madeeha Gauhar. 17. Changing the paradigm/Shehryar Ahmad. V. Lessons limits and the way forward 18. Peace initiatives/Asma Jehangir. 19. Pakistan India interactions/Balraj Puri. 20. Sustaining India Pakistan peace challenges for civil society and the military/Laxminarayan Ramdas. 21. Building a Nuclear Disarmament Movement learning lessons since 1998/Achin Vanaik. Over the past three decades in the shadow of hostile nationalisms fuelled by radical Islamic and Hindu politics military crises a runaway arms race nuclear weapons and war an amazing set of civil society initiatives has been taking root in India and Pakistan. A citizen's diplomacy movement embracing thousands of activists scholars business people and retired government officials has emerged in an unprecedented effort to build national and cross border networks for peace and cooperation between the two countries. In these essays leading scholars activists and writers from India and Pakistan reflect on the political and personal impact of crossing the border and explore the possibilities and limits of this new movement in its quest to chart a path to peace between the two countries. 348 pp. Seller Inventory # 75730
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