This paper discusses the increasing focus on issues pertaining to ‘human security’, and the emerging role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the development of multidimensional peace-building activities. In the changing international environment in which local, regional, and global level actors and norms have accrued enhanced legitimacy, a new generation of multi-dimensional peace-building activities has developed aiding in the development of ethical norms, utilizing peacekeeping, tradit
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This article presents a critical overview of the contemporary practice of post-conflict peacebuilding (PCPB), arguing that contemporary post-conflict operations rest upon the assumption that a sophisticated social engineering approach could replace, or accelerate, a process of state formation that occurs rather more organically. Yet, PCPB is subject to the same tensions and dilemmas as the process of state formation. Many recent post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation programmes have bee
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Insofar as the basis of the Kashmir conflict is political, a lasting solution
to the conflict can only come about at the political level. Despite this, civil society groups in Kashmir, and in India as well, do have a crucial role to play in promoting a peaceful resolution.
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