CIPS: Recent submissions

  • Climate Proofing Indus Water Treaty: An Instrument of Peace Building in South Asia 
    Fiaz, Hussain Shah (CIPS,National University of Science & Technology, Islamabad., 2022)
    Indus Water Treaty (IWT) between Pakistan and India was signed on 19 September 1960. At that time, climate change was not incorporated since the phenomenon was not known as it came to be known later. While climate change ...
  • Challenges of Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: Competing Interests of International and Regional Players 
    Amanullah, Khan (CIPS,National University of Science & Technology, Islamabad., 2020-12-07)
    Afghanistan is among the few countries that have been profoundly affected by the power politics in the world. The landlocked Afghanistan is surrounded by important regions having powerful state actors. South Asia has two ...
  • Resilience of Weak Democracies against Political Agitation for Government Change 
    Abbas, Khurram (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020)
    There are two basic notions related to democratic values. Firstly, a democratic system is designed to deal with national and international conflicts keeping the interests of the people in mind. Secondly, in a democracy ...
  • Post-Conflict Rehabilitation of Ex-Combatants 
    Khan, Ilam (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020)
  • Lawfare and Countering Terror Finance 
    Ahmed, Verda (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    In very broad terms Lawfare can be defined as the theory and practice of using international law as an instrument to advance one‘s interest. These could primarily be advanced by entities in the international system, ...
  • Securitization of Communicable Diseases 
    Jabbar, Rabeea (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    SARS Covid-19, a new coronavirus, is causing chaos all over the world. Politicians and media outlets appear to frequently employ war metaphors to illustrate the challenges posed by the outbreak. The Covid-19 pandemic ...
  • An Indigenous Response to Pakistan’s Political Narratives and Actions on Kashmir Conflict 
    Farid, Maida (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    Kashmir Conflict remains one of the longest ongoing conflicts in the world. The lack of positive developments has kept the conflict protracted and frozen. This research aims to provide new dimensions towards the conflict ...
  • International Relations (IR) in Pakistan 
    Malik, Mahnoor Hayat (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    This study explains ‘why’ the Eurocentric worldview continues to dominate the field of International Relations (IR) by providing an introspective point of view on the disciplinary limitation, in the specific case of ...
  • Epistemic Violence in The Case of Kashmir 
    Alvi, Mahnoor (2021)
    This thesis aims to problematize the concept of epistemic violence (E.V) and to explore how it unfolds in the case of Kashmir. A generic understanding of epistemic violence is the cornerstone for navigating the study. ...
  • The Potential of Nudging Civic Participation in Post-Conflict Environment 
    Hassan, Madiha (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    The conflict-affected tribal areas previously known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) were merged with the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in 2018. To acknowledge the need for innovative approaches to ...
  • Understanding Perception of Peace Among University Students of Gilgit-Baltistan 
    Zehra, Laraib (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    This study focuses on contributing to the field of peace and conflict studies, with a special focus on peace studies. It analysis perceptions surrounding the concepts of ‘peace’ and ‘peace education’ among students ...
  • Settler-Colonialism, Social Movement, and Human Rights Discourse 
    Amjad, Hajra (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    The research undertakes to assess the settler colonial project by India in the occupied valley of Kashmir. By using the settler colonial paradigm this study reflects and complements the settler colonial paradigm by ...
  • Populism and Ethno-nationalism 
    Tahir, Hafsa (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    The narrative developed in this research is “populism and ethno-nationalism: impacts on human rights in Pakistan”. The populist agenda has made dramatic inroads recently as a nationalistic, xenophobic, misogynistic, and ...
  • He Praxis of China’s ‘Shengtai Wenming’(Ecological Civilization) 
    Butt, Faruzan Anwer (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    The impacts of human-nature violence translate as ecological crises which enable a fundamental reorientation of such concepts as ‘justice.’ It emerges that ‘social’ justice is a corollary of ‘ecological’ justice, with ...
  • Hybrid Warfare in Balochistan 
    Khan, Ayesha Shaukat (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    This research is an introspection of the problems/vulnerabilities of Balochistan within the context of Pakistan‟s security. This has been executed by collecting data from the Baloch students and Baloch people in general. ...
  • Role of Women in UN Peacekeeping Operations 
    Khan, Ayesha (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    United Nations peacekeeping is the ultimate global initiative to ensure international peace and security. The peacekeeping missions have been working for decades to ensure stability and reconstruction in the conflict-affected ...
  • Epistemological Positioning of Human Geography towards Understanding Borderlands Geographies of Pakistan 
    Sandhu, Aleena Khalid (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    This research emphasizes the interdisciplinary approach of Human Geography and Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) scholarship for developing the conceptual understanding of peace of borderland geographies of Pakistan. A ...
  • Pandemic, Religiosity and Sectarian Conflict 
    Ali, Aisha (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    This thesis is an exploration of the link between threats like COVID-19 pandemic and the rising manifestations of xenophobia in collectivist & individualist societies. It explicates this relationship by conceptualizing ...
  • Limits of the Liberal Peace Building 
    Abdul Wassay, Muhammad (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2021)
    United States and NATO forces withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of war and violence and in the aftermath, the Taliban has taken control of the country. The western idea of liberal peace was promoted in the country ...
  • Analyzing the Pressures (internal and external) in Conflict Resolution 
    Qureshi, MARYA Rehman (2020)
    ABSTRACT Kashmir is an unresolved dispute since its inception. In addition, it added more to the misery of Kashmiri people when the extremist BJP government revoked the special status of Kashmir. Moreover, imposed ...

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