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Save to My PortfolioProtecting and Promoting Rights in Natural Disasters in South Asia

July 01, 2009, Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

Protecting and Promoting Rights in Natural Disasters in South AsiaSouth Asia is a "theater for disaster." In the past decade alone floods, cyclones, earthquakes, droughts, and a devastating tsunami destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives and livelihoods and left millions more homeless. In each disaster, humanitarian responders rushed to the scene to preserve human life and reduce immediate suffering. However, many times, human rights protection has been a secondary concern. This new report, based on a regional meeting in Chennai, India, discusses the challenges in incorporating human rights into disaster response in South Asia. Read More

South Asia, Natural Disasters, Human Rights, Internal Displacement, Asia

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Limits of U.S. Diplomacy in Kashmir

Dhruva Jaishankar and Anit Mukherjee, January 15, 2009, The Brookings Institution

The Limits of U.S. Diplomacy in KashmirThe Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has once again received international attention following November’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and there are reports that the Obama administration plans to appoint a special envoy for the region. However, as Dhruva Jaishankar and Anit Mukherjee explain, renewed U.S. engagement on Kashmir—especially if it were led by a high-profile envoy—is likely to prove counterproductive, a setback for U.S. foreign policy, for the India-Pakistan peace process and, ironically, for Kashmir itself. Read More

India , Pakistan, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, U.S. Department of State

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Save to My PortfolioWhat We Fear Most about the Mumbai Attacks

Bilal Y. Saab, December 08, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Bilal Saab writes that discovering who planned and executed the Mumbai attacks is critical to any effective future counterterrorism strategy.  He believes if subsequent investigations show that al Qaeda played no role, it signals the beginning of a dangerous new era in which multiple terrorist groups possess the operational capacity to mount large-scale, catastrophic attacks—previously thought to be the domain of al Qaeda alone. Read More

Terrorism, Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Asia, India

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Save to My PortfolioThe Kashmir Dispute: Making Borders Irrelevant

Wednesday, June 04, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Fayaz KabliOn June 4, the Brookings Institution and the United States Institute of Peace hosted scholars P.R. Chari and Hasan Askari Rizvi in a discussion about their upcoming study “Making Borders Irrelevant in Kashmir.” The study examines the opportunities and obstacles for increasing trade and movement across the Line of Control, the constituencies that would favor or oppose this approach, and the steps necessary to move the process forward. Read More

India , Pakistan, Kashmir

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Save to My PortfolioFour Crises and a Peace Process: American Engagement in South Asia

P.R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema and Stephen P. Cohen, November 01, 2007

India and Pakistan, nuclear neighbors and rivals, fought the last of three major wars in 1971. Far from peaceful, however, the period since then has been "one long crisis, punctuated by periods of peace." Read More

India , Pakistan, South Asia, Asia, Diplomacy

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Save to My PortfolioDemystifying Kashmir

Thursday, January 25, 2007
10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

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India , Pakistan, South Asia, Asia, Kashmir

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Save to My PortfolioIndia and the United States: A New Era

Bruce Riedel, December 18, 2006, The Brookings Institution

Opinion by Bruce Riedel (12/18/06) Read More

India , South Asia, Asia, Weapons, Weapons of Mass Destruction

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Save to My PortfolioPakistan: Musharraf Ought to Give Up the Uniform

Stephen P. Cohen, August 05, 2006, Tehelka

Interview with Stephen P. Cohen, Tehelka (8/5/06) Read More

Pakistan, India , South Asia, Asia, Kashmir

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioYoung Soldiers Used in Conflicts Around the World

Peter W. Singer, June 12, 2006, Washingtonpost.com

Online Chat with Peter W. Singer, Washingtonpost.com (6/12/06) Read More

Human Rights, Defense, U.S. Military, Sudan, Afghanistan

BOOK

Save to My PortfolioThe Idea of Pakistan: Revised edition

Stephen P. Cohen, April 01, 2006

Probing beyond the headlines, Cohen offers a panoramic portrait of this complex country. Read More

Pakistan, South Asia, Asia, Global Economics, Kashmir

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Save to My PortfolioPresident Bush's Trip to South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities

Thursday, February 23, 2006
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

In the first days of March, President Bush travels to India and Pakistan, which are part of a region characterized both by crisis and promise. India-Pakistan tensions have diminished, but basic differences remain over Kashmir; a war rages in Afghanistan; and Al Qaeda and other terrorists are active throughout the Subcontinent. Read More

India , South Asia, Asia, Global Economics, Kashmir

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Save to My PortfolioIndia and the Middle East

Stephen P. Cohen, November 16, 2005, House Committee on International Relations

Testimony by Stephen P. Cohen before the House International Relations Committee (11/16/05) Read More

India , Middle East, South Asia, Asia, Kashmir

BOOK

Save to My PortfolioChildren at War

Peter W. Singer, September 01, 2004

P. W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert on twenty-first-century warfare, explores how a new strategy of war, utilized by armies and warlords alike, has targeted children, seeking to turn them into soldiers and terrorists. Read More

Human Rights, Defense, Force and Legitimacy, Sudan, Kashmir

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioKashmir Must Not Fall to the Saboteurs of Peace

Stephen P. Cohen, January 16, 2004, Financial Times

Opinion by Stephen P. Cohen, The Financial Times (1/16/04) Read More

India , Pakistan, South Asia, Asia, Kashmir

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSecond generation diplomacy

Jeremy Goldberg and Parag Khanna, December 12, 2003, The Washington Times

Opinion by Jeremy Goldberg and Parag Khanna, The Washington Times (12/12/03) Read More

Middle East, Global Governance, Governance, Kashmir

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Stephen P. Cohen

Stephen P. Cohen

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, 21st Century Defense Initiative

Stephen P. Cohen, an author and former professor, conducts research on proliferation and the militaries of India and Pakistan.
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Peter W. Singer

Peter W. Singer

Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative

Peter W. Singer is the director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings. Singer’s research focuses on three core issues: the future of war, current U.S. defense needs and future priorities, and the future of the U.S. defense system. Singer lectures frequently to U.S. military audiences and is the author of several books and articles, including Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century.
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