INSURGENCY AND COUNTERINSURGENCY IN SOUTH ASIA FROM A PEACEBUILDING VIEW

Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia underscores the need for South Asian decision makers and relevant actors around the w orld to systematically examine the nature of intrastate insurgent movements. Using the conflict curve theory of conflict evolution, ten experts native to South Asia consider the trajectories of four of the most salient armed insurgencies in a region that has exper ienced many such sustained conflicts and the counterinsurgent response to each. Case studies on India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lank a lend im...[Read more]