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  • 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 ...
  • Exploring the nexus between Climate Change and National Security of Pakistan 
    Syeda Tayyaba Batool (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2020-09)
    Climate change is amongst the critical issues that the current world is facing. The Concept of security has undertaken international swift after the termination of the cold war and human security paid equal attention, thus ...
  • Understanding the Nexus between Modern Tertiary Education and Radicalisation: A Case Study of Pakistan 
    Aneeza Maham (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2018)
    Since its independence, Pakistan has been struggling to cope up with various multifaceted challenges. Predominantly, the education sector of Pakistan is lagging behind and has failed to yield quality education for youth. ...
  • Understanding the Genesis of ‘Beingness’ Through Subject-Object Relationalism: A Case of Pakistan 
    Noor Irshad (CIPS, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, 2018)
    This research develops a conceptual framework based on philosophical and theoretical discussion to examine the current delineated state of Pakistan; socially, morally and ethically. The thesis draws from philosophical ...
  • Understanding Nationhood from a Social Constructionist Lens: A Study of Pakistan’s Political Discourse (1947-1988) 
    Aizah Azam (2018)
    This dissertation examines the case of nationhood in Pakistan from a social constructionist lens. After outlining the fundamental explanations of the inherently elusive subject of nationalism and its associated branches, ...
  • Incorporation and Representation Of Female Academics’ Agency in Associated Disciplines: A Critique Of Pakistani Academia 
    Nuzhat Rana (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2020)
    This research work explicates “gender” in the disciplinary scholarship and academia of International Relations and associated disciplines in Pakistan. It does so by drawing upon the views of female academics working in ...
  • The Stakes for Gilgit Baltistan in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (Cpec) 
    Riaz Javed Afridi (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2018)
    CPEC is progressing at full steam, with this the strategic significance of Gilgit-Baltistan in terms of investment and trade has increased more than ever. The CPEC was initiated in July 2013 and it now widely considered ...
  • The Political Economy of Conflict: Case study of Swa 
    Mirza Yaqoob Baig (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2018)
    The main concern of this thesis is to analyze conflict in Pakistan, mainly the conflict in Swat through political economic perspective. It builds a case that conflict in Swat has produced a relationship of violence and ...
  • The Lobbying Efforts of Pakistan in the Post-Cold War Era: Case Study of the European Union 
    Nida Khalid (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2019)
  • The culture of fear: Exploring the causal link between terrorism and crime 
    Javeria Yaseen . (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2018)
    Fear is an emotional reaction stimulated by an apparent risk that causes a modification in the mind and further body functions. It also effects the way in which different people behave and it typically causes an individual ...
  • The Construction of Madrassa Image: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Madrassa Reforms of Pakistan From 2001-2018 
    Masooma Jafri (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2018)
    Before the creation of Pakistan, madaris were the center of scholarly debates and philosophical studies, but since the independence, these institutions are not seen as the traditional educational institutes, rather they ...
  • Space Militarization: Threats to Security of Pakistan and Strategic Stability of South Asia 
    Noor Ul Huda Atif (CIPS, National University of Science and Technology , Islamabad, 2019)
    Outer space is the defining future of international politics, with space faring becoming a global common. This thesis provides an assessment of the national and regional security threats due to the imbalance of space ...

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