Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in South Asia; can covid-19 provide a bridge for peace and rapprochement?

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorInstitute for Global Health and Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorUniversity Research Council, Aga Khan Universityen
cg.contributor.donorHospital for Sick Childrenen
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.countryPakistan
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PK
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierPurnima Menon: 0000-0001-5988-2894
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-067384en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA plus
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1756-1833en
cg.issue375en
cg.journalBMJen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume375en
dc.contributor.authorBhutta, Zulfiqar A.en
dc.contributor.authorMitra, Arunen
dc.contributor.authorSalman, Afsahen
dc.contributor.authorAkbari, Fawaden
dc.contributor.authorDalil, Surayaen
dc.contributor.authorMenon, Purnimaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:10:23Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:10:23Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/142374
dc.titleConflict, extremism, resilience and peace in South Asia; can covid-19 provide a bridge for peace and rapprochement?en
dcterms.abstractSouth Asia, home to 1.97 billion people (25% of the world’s population), is no stranger to conflict and confrontation. Longstanding border disputes (such as between India and China and the decades-old standoff between India and Pakistan), the forced displacement of Myanmar Muslims to Bangladesh, and the 2021 rise of the Taliban triggering a mass exodus of professionals and educated women from Afghanistan underscore the enormous volatility and unpredictability of the region. Climate change poses a further challenge, with the real risk of interstate “water wars.”1 Indeed, South Asia now faces a range of threats, with real risks of these spilling over into interstate conflict. The links between longstanding conflict, insecurity, and poverty are well recognised.23 Abject poverty, especially when associated with disparities, underlies many of the known conflicts worldwide, unsurprisingly given the drain conflict places on social sector spending. And although lack of social inclusion and ethnic inequalities have been shown to lead to domestic terrorism,4 economic inequalities and grievances are stronger drivers of rebellion,5 and are particularly relevant in South Asia. Despite robust economic growth and progress on many technological fronts, South Asia still has the world’s largest concentrations of poverty, illiteracy, malnutrition, and preventable maternal and child deaths outside sub-Saharan Africa.6 Widespread poverty is closely intertwined with social disparities, marginalisation on the basis of an egregious caste system, and vast inequities that perpetuate disillusionment, grassroot rebellion, and further conflict.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2021-11-15
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Mitra, Arun; Salman, Afsah; Akbari, Fawad; Dalil, Suraya; Menon, Purnima; et al. 2021. Conflict, extremism, resilience and peace in South Asia; can covid-19 provide a bridge for peace and rapprochement? BMJ 375: e067384. https://doi.org/10.1136/BMJ-2021-067384en
dcterms.issued2021-11-24
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0
dcterms.publisherBMJ Publishing Group Ltden
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/8033en
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.subjectpeacebuildingen
dcterms.subjectconflictsen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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