SACW | 24 June, 2003

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South Asia Citizens Wire   |  24 June,  2003

#1. Lessons of empire  (Amitav Ghosh)
#2. Dying for Dubya: The Illogic of Indian Troops in Iraq (Siddharth 
Varadarajan)
#3. India Gate and the road to Iraq (Jawed Naqvi)
#4. American durbar (Mani Shankar Aiyar)
#5. Letter to the Editor (Mukul Dube)
#6. AMAN Peace and Conflict Studies Course (Delhi, September 15 - 
October 15, 2003)
#7. The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan (Stephen Cohen)

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#1.

The Hindu
Jun 24, 2003

Lessons of empire
By Amitav Ghosh

India is faced with the prospect of re-enacting one of the ugliest 
and most repugnant aspects of its colonial history... India has much 
to lose and nothing to gain from this.

THE RECENT war in Iraq has been replete with chilling reminders of 
the history of empire. Among the most dismaying of these is the 
proposal, now being considered by the Government of India, that 
Indian troops be used for the policing of Iraq.

Today, in the 56th year of independence, India is faced with the 
prospect of re-enacting one of the ugliest and most repugnant aspects 
of its colonial history. During the Raj, Indian soldiers were used 
both for the expansion of the empire and for the suppression of 
anti-colonial rebellions, at home and abroad. For more than a 
century, they battled insurgents in East Africa, Burma, China, Malaya 
and of course, Mesopotamia (the present-day Iraq). Independent India 
has yet to live down this shameful legacy: in many parts of the world 
Indians are still remembered as Imperial mercenaries, as slaves who 
allowed themselves to be used without reflection or self-awareness.

The aspect of this that would be most repellent, if it were not so 
pathetically poignant, is that many of these soldiers genuinely 
believed that their exertions on behalf of the Raj would put them on 
an equal footing with their rulers. The discovery that they were no 
more and no less than what they appeared to be - tools, instruments - 
often came as an almost unsustainable shock, eventually prompting 
some to turn against their masters.

A similar dynamic appears to be at work again today: some 
policy-makers appear to believe that the rendering of certain 
services can gain India entry into the innermost circles of global 
power. Our history has truly been suffered in vain if it has failed 
to teach us that this is not how the world works.

Let us make no mistake about the role that Indian troops will serve 
if they are deployed in Iraq: they will not be `policing' the 
country; they will be fighting a war. No matter what the spin, it is 
clear that the war in Iraq is far from over; in a sense it has only 
just begun. The small group of American and British neo-conservatives 
who initiated this war did so in the belief that the situation in the 
Middle East could best be resolved through the use of overwhelming 
violence. They have succeeded only in transforming great multitudes 
of people into instruments of collective resistance. The Anglophone 
countries that took the lead in this war - the United States, Britain 
and Australia - prevailed easily in the conventional phase of the 
war. But they are now faced with the prospect of a protracted 
low-intensity conflict. This is exactly the sort of struggle that is 
most to their disadvantage, not least because of the four-and 
five-year election cycles to which the rhythms of their wars are 
typically tuned.

As the Israeli military historian, Martin van Creveld has observed, 
it is impossible to indefinitely sustain a war of the mighty against 
the weak. With the passage of time, this conflict will become less 
and less defensible, politically, morally and militarily, even within 
the core constituencies of the belligerents.

As an Indian who has spent a great deal of time in the U.S., I have a 
deep, but not unquestioning, attachment to that country. While 
welcoming the warmth of India's present relations with the U.S., I 
recognise also that this intimacy carries a burden that was absent 
from the earlier relationship of guarded distance. Most importantly 
it imposes the obligation to think of the long term rather than of 
immediate rewards and benefits. This being so, it is incumbent on the 
policy-makers of the South Block to think about the likely outcome of 
the present U.S. policy in the Middle East.

No matter what the polls may suggest, there is massive and growing 
opposition to the policies of the Bush administration: the millions 
of Americans who demonstrated against the war in Iraq on February 15 
of this year have not disappeared and will soon be heard from again. 
The very extremism of the Bush administration's stance, in economics 
as in foreign affairs, makes it certain that these policies will, in 
time, be forcefully repudiated. It is to that time, which is no more 
than six years away, that Indian policy-makers must look. In 
identifying themselves too closely with the policies of the current 
administration, they may well run the risk of a future 
marginalisation.

To make a desolation and call it peace has ever been the chosen 
method of empires. It is not difficult to imagine a time in the near 
future when the U.S. and Britain will extricate themselves from Iraq 
after declaring a victory. Indeed the embroilment of India, Poland 
and so on, is clearly a step along that path. But the doors that 
permit the exit of the major powers will not be open to India. The 
countries of the Arab world are our neighbours and will remain so 
forever. Great numbers of Indians live and work there and will do so 
into the foreseeable future.

There is a sense in which the Indian Government's responsibilities do 
not end at the borders of India. The historic circumstances under 
which Indians came to be dispersed around the world, has given it an 
obligation to consider also the well-being of the Indian diaspora. 
The Indians of the Middle East have long played a vital part in 
shoring up India's foreign exchange reserves: it is imperative that 
the Indian Government take their interests into account in deciding 
on the deployment of its troops.

Suppose there were a circumstance in which Indian troops had to open 
fire on an Iraqi crowd, killing a number of civilians. It is quite 
likely that every Indian in the Arab world would feel the 
repercussions. This is surely one of the most elementary lessons of 
our sad history of military deployments abroad. There is the example 
of the uprising of 1930 in Burma. Led by Saya San, this movement was, 
in its origins, directed against British rule. The British suppressed 
it with great brutality, using Indian troops, and the rumours 
generated by the campaign led to savage reprisals against Indian 
civilians, of whom there were then more than a million in Burma. This 
in turn, resulted in a situation that allowed the British to present 
the uprising as being directed against Indians, rather than against 
the Empire itself. This was one of the more remarkable achievements 
of the accomplished tradition of spin-doctoring to which Tony Blair 
is heir.

It is in the light of experiences such as this (there are many 
others) that we should consider what may result from the presence of 
Indian troops in Iraq. Were these soldiers to find themselves in a 
situation where they had to use lethal force there would be no lack 
of spin-doctors to cast their actions in the worst possible light. 
Given the context of communal violence in India, there is no story 
that would not be believed.

And to take the scenario further: what if the violence were to occur 
in An-Najaf or Karbala, places that are revered by great numbers of 
Indians? The potential for harm is almost beyond computation.

As a nation that treasures its hard-won independence and democracy, 
India's deepest commitment must be to the rule of law, at home and in 
the world. The present situation in Iraq has its origins in an action 
that was clearly in breach of international legal conventions. To 
send troops to Iraq now would be a step towards the retrospective 
normalisation of this situation. India has much to lose and nothing 
to gain from this.

The United Nations and the conventions that govern it are far from 
perfect. But these conventions were brought into being in the wake of 
decolonisation, and they represent a genuine and serious attempt to 
imagine an alternative to a global system of empires.

India, of all countries, cannot assent to the undermining of this 
body of law and convention: it would be a repudiation of the lessons 
of our history and a betrayal of the ideals of our independence.

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#2.

The Times of India
JUNE 24, 2003

Dying for Dubya: The Illogic of Indian Troops in Iraq
SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN

I wonder if L K Advani and others in the Vajpayee government who are 
so anxious to send soldiers to Iraq have ever heard of Lance Naik 
Anthony, III F.13, of the Bullock Corps? Or perhaps of Barkat Ali the 
Sapper, N Swamy the Bullock Driver, or Kannikar, Birsa, Copalan and 
Bhima B of the Indian Labour Corps?
 
I encountered their unremembered names at the Basra War Cemetery 
during a visit in 1998, on fading, chipped tombstones and the dusty, 
yellowing pages of Part XIII of The Basra War Memorial, Iraq, 
published by the Imperial War Graves Commission, 1931, and lovingly 
protected in a large sack by the cemetery's caretaker. They, along 
with thousands of Indian soldiers, perished on the battlefields of 
Iraq during and after World War I, fighting a war of conquest and 
pacification against a fraternal people for the greater profit and 
glory of the British Empire.
 
Since their names were not individually recorded, separate plaques at 
the cemetery for the mostly anonymous 'Mohammedan', Hindu and Sikh 
soldiers announce that the brave Indians had "sacrificed their lives 
in the Great War for their King and their Country". Underfed and 
poorly equipped, the Indian troops had been little more than cannon 
fodder for the British. The king they died for was George V, and one 
wonders what kind of=C2  epitaph will be penned for the Indian soldiers 
who will lay down their lives helping the US occupiers in Iraq if Mr 
Advani has his way. 'For the brave Indians who sacrificed their lives 
for King George Bush II and his viceroy, L Paul Bremmer III'?
 
The call for troops from India is an act of desperation by the Bush 
administration which is hoping others will dig it out of a hole that 
is deepening by the day. With the body bag count slowly mounting, the 
US wants to cut its 150,000 soldier-strong=C2  presence to about 
30,000, replacing the conquering heroes with dupes from around the 
world whose leaders aspire to nothing more noble than a chance to 
wait on the high table.
 
UN Security Council resolution 1483 lifted sanctions on Iraq, 
recognised the reality of the US occupation and =E2=A4" regrettably =E2=A4" 
allowed the invaders to decide how Iraqi oil revenues would be spent. 
However, the UN did not mandate a peace-keeping force of any sort, 
let alone the peace-making forces of the kind it deployed in Somalia 
(Unosom II) or the former Yugoslavia. It merely welcomes the 
"willingness of member-states to contribute to stability and security 
in Iraq by contributing personnel, equipment and other resources 
under the Authority" (emphasis added), i.e. the occupying powers.
 
So far, the debate in India has revolved around the question of 
whether it is acceptable for Indian soldiers to take orders from US 
commanders. Indian troops have functioned before under the command of 
foreign generals, but always within the context of a formally 
mandated UN force. In Somalia, so long as the US led its own 
peace-keeping force (Unitaf) =E2=A4" which quickly degenerated into a 
deadly manhunt for Gen Aidid, endangering Somali civilians and 
peacekeepers alike =E2=A4" India refrained from joining.
 
As in Somalia, this is the key reason why it would be disastrous for 
Indian soldiers to work under US command in Iraq. The US aim is not 
to restore stability =E2=A4" it has=C2  not even managed to restore 
electricity and water =E2=A4" but to impose political arrangements aimed 
at protecting its own interests. If that means aggressively wading 
into=C2  civilian areas (as in Fallujah, Tikrit and=C2  elsewhere) and 
making mass arrests, or closing down a TV station (as in Mosul), it 
is the Indian soldiers and other peace-keepers who will have to deal 
with the fall-out. What makes the venture all the more foolhardy is 
the mounting US pressure on Iraq's neighbour, Iran. Indian troops 
deployed in the 'trouble-free' southern and northern areas of Iraq 
could willy-nilly get drawn into US machinations aimed at weakening 
Iranian and Shi'ite influence.
 
In India today, those=C2  favouring the sending of troops naively 
assume that the US will assist us against Pakistan over Kashmir=C2  
(although what happens once Islamabad sends troops to Iraq is 
anybody's guess). There is also a myopic and defeatist opportunism: 
"Let's face facts, the US rules the world, we better join it in the 
hope that we might be able to influence them", a retired Indian 
general with experience in peace-keeping (and US perfidy therein) 
declared on TV recently. Well, if Britain, America's closest ally, is 
not able to influence US policy on most=C2  issues =E2=A4" especially on 
giving the UN the decisive role in Iraq =E2=A4" fat chance of India=C2  
doing so.
 
Above all, the Vajpayee government must respect the Parliament 
resolution condemning the aggression against Iraq and calling for the 
immediate withdrawal of US forces. That resolution recognised both 
the will of the Indian people and the fact that the=C2  violation of 
international law and the destabilising of Asia are not in India's 
national=C2  interest. To send troops to enforce an occupation 
explicitly condemned by Parliament would make a mockery of our 
democracy.
 
Another fiction being peddled by Mr Advani is that "if the Iraqis 
favour it", India would send its troops. The Iraqis today are under 
an illegal, colonial occupation,=C2  and it is Viceroy Bremmer who 
takes all decisions. The day the Iraqis wrest back control of their 
country would also be the day the US occupiers would have to leave. 
Any call for Indian troops by Iraqis before that time would not be 
worth a piastre.


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#3.

Dawn (Pakistan)
23 June 2003

India Gate and the road to Iraq
By Jawed Naqvi

Hindu revivalists described the Babri Masjid as a symbol of slavery 
foisted by the Mughals. That was one of the reasons they cited for 
its demolition. That is how its rubble became a symbol of their 
so-called national awakening, a phrase used by Prime Minister 
Vajpayee, no less. Similarly, many people see the Taj Mahal not as a 
symbol of love as commonly perceived but as a monument to slave 
labour, not too different in this respect from the great Pyramids of 
Egypt.
The popular Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianavi used his poetic licence to 
scoff at the Taj Mahal, which he likened to a wayward ruler's method 
of belittling the poor man's less ornate gesture to his ladylove. 
Sahir, in a beautifully argued poem, even urged his beloved never to 
meet him in the precincts of the fabled monument.
Going by these arguments Delhi's India Gate, as no other monument in 
British India, should attract our patriotic bulldozers. It is after 
all the ultimate symbol of our slavery, even if Mrs Indira Gandhi had 
sought to convert it into a symbol of valour, a monument to the 
fallen soldiers after the 1971 war.
India Gate is a majestic structure, 42 metres high, set at the end of 
today's Rajpath, perhaps the most beautiful area of New Delhi, with 
plush green lawns in the backdrop. This is where the Republic Day 
military parade is held annually on January 26. It is a popular 
picnic spot in winter and equally popular as a relaxation area during 
summer evenings.
Designed and built by Edward Lutyens, it was originally called the 
All India War Memorial in memory of the 90,000 Indian soldiers who 
died in the campaigns of World War I, the north west frontier 
operations of the period, including the 1919 Afghan fiasco.
On the walls of the structure are inscribed the names of all the 
Indian soldiers in the British army who perished. An eternal flame, 
called Amar Jawan Jyoti, that runs on gas was lit in 1971 to honour 
the more recent memories of the Bangladesh campaign. During the 
night, it is intensely floodlit and the fountains nearby are lit up 
with coloured lights. Close by is the canopy which once became 
controversial and under whose red sandstone roof was the marble 
statue of King George V which has been shifted from there. The canopy 
was also designed and built by Lutyens.
King George's statue was removed by someone in authority decades ago 
because it reminded them of our colonial past. Now if one were an 
Indian of a nationalist zealot hue, one should be saying demolish the 
whole wretched structure, for the entire monument after all 
celebrates the hapless veritable slaves who fought someone else's 
war. Fortunately, there are no takers for such a rush of silly 
patriotism. And yet we Indians are a maudlin lot when it comes to our 
faith in the nation, sovereignty, patriotism, etc. We also suffer 
from selective amnesia in defining the contours of our national 
fervour.
Would it be an act of patriotism or betrayal of national interests to 
send troops to Iraq? Foreign Minister Yahswant Sinha says the best 
national interest would govern a decision. The opposition is 
suspicious, fearing that the government has already taken a decision 
to send troops under American pressure. Even that ultimate repository 
of nationalism, the rightwing Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, which 
initially stoutly opposed Indian troops for Iraq, has published 
arguments in its latest news journal about the likely benefits of 
such a move. The Congress as usual sits on the fence, leaving poor 
Mani Shankar Aiyer to publicly oppose the dispatch of troops, but 
only in his personal capacity and not as a Congressman.
Indian troops or Pakistani troops, they would not be going to Iraq 
with flowers. They would be carrying their killing machines with 
them. And once you are involved in a war zone, be it on a 
peacekeeping mission or as a quaintly described stabilizing force, 
there is no guarantee that things will not go wrong, for the Iraqis 
and for the foreign soldiers. As indeed did happen in the Black 
September episode in Jordan in 1970 when Pakistan's Zia ul Haq got 
his troops involved in a bloodbath of Palestinians. One India Gate is 
enough of a bad memory from colonial days for both India and 
Pakistan. It is prudent to avoid the prospect of another one looming 
nigh.


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#4.

The Indian Express, June 24 2003
American durbar
Indian troops in Iraq would signal the beginning of a subsidiary alliance
Mani Shankar Aiyar
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=3D26338

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23 June 2003

Sir or Madam,

Whom does Mr. George Fernandes, Defence Minister, expect to fool
with his absurd statement that Indian troops will be sent to Iraq
only after the Iraqi people have been consulted? Iraq is occupied
by the US. An outsider can consult only those Iraqis whom the
occupying forces permit him to meet. Does Mr. Fernandes plan to
go behind the backs of the Yankees, the prospective employers of
the Indian State's mercenaries?

Yours truly,

Mukul Dube

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#6.

AMAN Peace and Conflict Studies Course
Delhi, September 15 - October 15, 2003

Overview
This course on peace and conflict, organised by the AMAN Trust, aims 
at developing and widening intellectual discourse on the subject 
among individuals working in NGOs, teachers, journalists, students 
and other concerned citizens.  The course will make Indian and South 
Asian reality a starting point for an investigation of conflict, 
violence and its many ramifications.

AMAN believes in the need for an integrated and multi-disciplinary 
approach to conflict in this region. Given the rapidly changing 
geo-political environment, critical scholars have asked how far the 
contours and mechanisms of the global system are responsible for 
generating conflict. This question requires us to explore the 
inter-connections between ethnic, caste, class, and communal issues 
in the origins and nature of conflict. Aman will develop conceptual 
approaches that connect, rather than compartmentalize themes relevant 
to violence and conflict. We also believe that philosophical and 
ethical inquiry is a necessary element in such a study. Our lectures 
and seminars shall examine the relationship between local and global 
issues, competing histories and antagonistic polities; and the 
functions that link ethnic identity, gender, and symbols to political 
and economic structures.

Time, Costs and Requirements
The course will be conducted from 15th September to 15th October. It 
will be interactive and residential, with five to six hours of 
lectures and/ or discussions per day. Packets of reading materials 
will be made available; certain written work will be expected from 
participants, and they will be awarded a certificate of completion 
based upon this and their contribution to the interactive sessions 
and seminars.

Aman will charge a minimum fee of Rs. 5,000/- (five thousand) per 
individual participant inclusive of stay; but not including travel. 
Organisations that support participants will be requested to 
contribute an amount closer to our actual costs. Prospective 
participants need to submit the following on or before July 15, 2003:
a. A personal resume, including the name of any organisation that you work w=
ith
b. The names and contact details of two referees
c. A one-page document on why you are interested in the course

Course Structure
The course will consist of the following six rubrics, whose contents 
will be supplied in greater detail to participants later in the year:

Rubric 1:  Ethical and Philosophical Perspectives on Violence
Lead Instructor: Purushottam Agrawal
The aim of this course will be to develop informed ethical 
perspectives on violence and conflict. Themes to be  covered will 
include ideas of Justice and Compassion; the concept of Evil; the 
idea of the fundamental schism;  in-groups and out-groups; love and 
hatred; violence in nature and culture; how various religious 
traditions relate with this issue; pagan and monotheistic religions; 
and psychoanalytical theories of violence. There will be commentaries 
on scriptures, their interpretation and relation to everyday 
practices; literary creativity and issues of violence/non-violence; 
and analyses of specific texts such as the Shrimadbhagvadgita.

Rubric 2: Aspects of twentieth century world history
Lead Instructor: Dilip Simeon
This survey course aims to provide participants with knowledge about 
the formative political crises of the 20th century, with a focus on 
basic facts as well as perspective. The analytical interests will 
include:- a) the Great War, the world order of nation-states 
envisaged in the post-1919 era, the tensions within empire, the 
challenge to this order posed by the rise of nationalism and 
Bolshevism; b) the crisis of the 1930's, the emergence and 
significance of fascism; the Second World War and its long-term 
effects on global politics;  c) the origins of the Cold War, the 
Vietnam war, the nuclear arms build-up; d) the history of 
international peace movements; e) the implosion of the USSR and its 
aftermath; f) Imperial interventions in West Asia with a focus on 
Palestine. Guest lectures and seminars will be held on certain major 
historical episodes.

Rubric 3: Conflict Issues in the Womens Movement
Lead Instructors: Urvashi Butalia and Kavita Panjabi
This module will focus on collective issues. Women's interests are at 
the heart of conflicts over natural resources, conflicts arising out 
of privatization and the threat to livelihoods, struggles for 
self-determination and political power. Given the continuum between 
domestic and public conflicts, the ongoing conflicts in India and 
South Asia have affected the lives of women and children both within 
and outside the home. Our course will track women's involvement in 
conflict and the gendering of violent conflict and nationalisms. It 
will draw attention to new forms of resistance, as well as new and 
resurgent patriarchies. It will examine the responses of women 
activists to conflict situations, as well as the usefulness of 
national and international law and covenants. Issues to be addressed 
will include the Mathura Rape case, the Shah Bano case and the civil 
code debate, violence against women in Gujarat, Bombay, Kashmir and 
the North East, and the role of women in South Asian conflicts. The 
latter will include the MQM in Pakistan, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, 
and the LTTE and TULF in Sri Lanka.

Rubric 4: The world order and concepts of conflict
Lead Instructor: Jairus Banaji
This rubric will engage with conflict issues through a series of 
seminal texts. These are:
1)Karl Marx's Capital
2)Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason
3)Duncan Kennedy's Critique of Adjudication
4)Arthur Rosenberg's Fascism as a mass movement
5)Steinfeld's Coercion, Contract and Free Labor

The instructor will also examine markets, regulation and the 
architecture of the world financial system. The themes will include 
US hegemony and the dominance of the dollar; the control of oil; the 
post-war internationalisation of capital; mergers & acquisitions; 
Anglo-American capitalism vs the bank-based systems; European 
economic integration and other responses to American dominance; 
competition and 'restructuring' in the 1990s and the meanings of 
'globalisation'. There may also be a seminar on the WTO.

Rubric 5 : Contemporary Indian History
Lead Instructor: Arun Kumar
This course attempts to cover the conceptual making of 20th century 
India, a brief history of the processes involved in nation-building, 
and what unfolded as Independent Indian society and polity. 
Anti-colonial movements in the 20th century; the political-economy of 
=46reedom in relation to the labouring poor; and the political use of 
caste and religion constitute the basic framework. Bhoodan, Naxalite 
movements, Dalit politics, the rise of the intermediate castes, 
communalism, and the ongoing conflicts in Kashmir and the North East 
will be examined. Changing notions of the individual, identity and 
citizenship will be discussed with regard to the crises of 
nationalism in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka.

Rubric 6: Law, Conflict and Peace Processes
Lead Instructor: Vrinda Grover
Recent Indian experience will be used to introduce the history and 
practice of law as a conflict resolution mechanism. The following 
themes will be covered: a) Security laws: their impact on social 
peace, fundamental freedoms, civil liberties and constitutional 
rights; the international context post 9/11, laws in the US and UK. 
The national context, definition of 'terrorist', the history of TADA, 
its relation to globalisation and peoples struggles. Understanding 
POTA, the Parliament attack case, implicit concepts of the nation; b) 
Women and Violence: evaluation of legal interventions, the womens' 
movement, anti-dowry legislation, rape laws, sexual harassment 
guidelines, civil remedies for domestic violence. Judicial 
interpretation of cruelty, patriarchal interpretation and redressal 
of violence against women; c) Communal carnage and the law: critique 
of the criminal justice system, commissions of inquiry - Delhi in 
1984, Gujarat in 2002, Maliana-Hashimpura in 1987, Oinam in 1988; 
socio-political impact of dysfunctional justice; d) International 
Human Rights: brief history, the Bill of Rights, first, second and 
third generation rights; the Indian Constitution, Fundamental Rights 
and Directive Principles; e) Labour laws in relation to conflict. 
There will also be case studies of law as a means of reconciliation, 
eg., the experience of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation 
Commission.

About Aman: The Aman Public Charitable Trust was established in 2001 
to render humanitarian assistance and training to vulnerable sections 
of Indian society, regardless of caste or creed, in particular those 
rendered invisible by conflict. The ongoing spiral of tension in 
South Asia has bred fear and distrust, and undermined democratic 
institutions. Aman believes that society's neglect of people 
marginalised by violent conflict will have unhealthy long-term 
consequences. We envisage a pro-active role for civil society in 
reducing conflict and mitigating its effects.  In keeping with these 
aims, we have started a programme for comprehending and reducing 
conflict in India. Our sensitisation and legal-aid programmes aim at 
strengthening social institutions and resources for non-violent 
conflict resolution. Our educational work (of which this course is a 
part), is intended to develop and disseminate inter-disciplinary 
approaches to conflict.

Please ask for a detailed blurb on Aman, or more information on the 
Peace Course from our office, via e-mail, or ordinary mail.  Address 
correspondence to

Rishi Iyengar, c/o The Aman Trust
D- 504, Nagarjuna Apartments,
Noida Road,
New Delhi - 110096
E-mail: <rishi_amn@yahoo.co.in>
Tel: 011 22713509

You may copy your mail to Susan Abraham at <susan@amanpanchayat.org>


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#7.

The Washington Quarterly
(Summer 2003)

"The Jihadist Threat to Pakistan"
by Stephen Cohen
http://www.twq.com/03summer/docs/03summer_cohen.pdf



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