COMMENTARIES
-
How Peaceful is South Asia: A Review of the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2013
Barana Waidyatilake · 02 Jul, 2013 · #4018 · Commentary
The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2013 identifies South Asia as the least peaceful region in the world. Though the region had, as a whole, displayed a slight increase in peacefulness since 2010 when peacefulness was at its lowest, the current level o...
-
IPCS Special Commentary
South Korea and China: Park’s Visit and After
Dr Sandip Kumar Mishra · 02 Jul, 2013 · #4017 · Commentary
In her recent visit to China, South Korean President Park Geun-hyu emphasised the pivotal role of China in determining the security and economic architecture of Northeast Asia and her visit was an apparently successful attempt to connect with Ch...
-
Myanmar: The Economics of Trafficking
Asma Masood · 01 Jul, 2013 · #4016 · Commentary
Trafficking of Kachin women and children is emerging as a serious crisis. Kachin Women’s Association Thailand’s latest report, Pushed To The Brink (June 2013), updates on trafficking of Kachin women and girls amidst renewed conflict ...
-
China: Child Abduction and Trafficking
Namrata Hasija · 30 Jun, 2013 · #4015 · Commentary
China National Radio reported in June that around 200,000 children disappear every year. Only 0.1 per cent of them are found and returned to their families. An art exhibition was organised on 1 June 2013 by Li Yueling, volunteers working for the...
-
Disaster Mis-Management: Nature’s Fury and Our Failure
D Suba Chandran · 27 Jun, 2013 · #4014 · Commentary
Let us get our questions correct in analysing disaster management. Do the natural disasters kill more? Or our failure to manage the disasters increases the casualty rate?
Any analysis of disaster management in our part of the world – enti...
-
J&K: Mr PM you failed to talk peace
Shujaat Bukhari · 26 Jun, 2013 · #4013 · Commentary
After taking stock of the developments of Tuesday, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s sixth visit to Jammu and Kashmir was ill timed. On the face of it, the visit is to “celebrate” the...
-
IPCS Debate
Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: Tamil Disenchantment
Prof. V. Suryanarayan · 25 Jun, 2013 · #4012 · Commentary
During the Fourth Eelam War, in order to ensure India’s support to the ongoing military operations, President Mahinda Rajapaksa used to assure New Delhi that his government would sincerely and expeditiously implement the 13th amendment, on...
-
IPCS Discussion:
The Kachin and Rohingya Conflicts in Myanmar
Nayantara Shaunik · 25 Jun, 2013 · #4011 · Commentary
The Kachin Conflict: Review of 'Pushed to the Brink'
by CS Kuppuswamy
Two years since the conflict between the Myanmar Army and the Kachin Independence Army started on 9 June 2011, it does not seem to have reached a cohesive conclusion...
-
Water Conflicts in South Asia:
Cauvery and the Monsoon Surge
Roomana Hukil · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4010 · Commentary
A new dynamic over the Cauvery row impounds greater perplexity in the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu relationship. The Cauvery Supervisory Committee (CSC) dismissed Tamil Nadu’s plea of receiving 63 tmcft of water (53 tmcft as 2012’s backl...
-
IPCS Special Commentary:
China, Tibet & Beijing's New Thinking
Jayadeva Ranade · 24 Jun, 2013 · #4009 · Commentary
Click here for the PDF version.
As China’s new leaders began settling into their jobs soon after the 18th Party Congress held in Beijing in November 2012, indications became available that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s sen...
