This volume spans the entire range of armed conflicts in South Asia taking both inter-state and intra -state actors into account. It address three major security aspects in the region-armed conflicts, peace audit and early warning-and evaluates the gap between the end of the violence and response to peace, assessing whether the peace process are fragile in the region. 

Highlighting the early warning of the impending armed conflicts, the essays permit the placement of ameliorative measures for dealing with such a situation from law and order perspective.

Contents

PART I
Armed Conflict

CHAPTER 1
Overview
P.R. Chari

CHAPTER 2
Security Transition and Peace Process in Afghanistan
Mariam Safi

CHAPTER 3
Armed Conflicts in Pakistan: Continuing Violence despite Changes in Leadership
D. Suba Chandran and Ayesha Khanyari

CHAPTER 4
Myanmar: Tentative Consolidation of Peace
Bibhu Prasad Routray

CHAPTER 5
Northeast India: Bordering on Renewed Conflict or building on the Peace?
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman

CHAPTER 6
Left-Wing Extremism: A Mixed bag
N. Manoharan

PART II
Peace Audit

CHAPTER 7
Peace Process in Jammu and Kashmir 2013: Hope to Simmering Discontent?
Ashok Bhan

CHAPTER 8
Peace Process in Manipur: A Perspective
Chitra Ahanthem

CHAPTER 9
Auditing Peace and Conflict in India’s Northeast: Do We Need a ‘Peace Policy’?
Nani Gopal Mahanta

CHAPTER 10
Election 2013 and Peace Process in Nepal
Nishchal Nath Pandey

CHAPTER 11
Moist Insurgency and Peace Process in Nepal: Integration (of the Maoist Combatants) and the Divide within the Maoist Party
Uddhab Prasad Pyakurel

CHAPTER 12
Sri Lanka: Positive Peace at a Distance
N. Manoharan

CHAPTER 13
State, Society and Talks with Taliban: Everywhere and Nowhere
D. Suba Chandran

PART III
Early Warning

CHAPTER 14
Communal Divide in Jammu and Kashmir
Kavita Suri

CHAPTER 15
Maoists in Northeast India: The Spread of a Rebellion
Wasbir Hussain

CHAPTER 16
Convergence and Divergence of Madhes Politics in Nepal and Its Implication
Sohan Prasad Sha

CHAPTER 17
The Political Direction of the Maoist Party in Nepal: Possibilities, Recommendations and Incentives
Sisir Devkota

CHAPTER 18
Sinhala Buddhist Radicalization in Post-War Sri Lanka
Thiranjala Weerasinghe