Dialectically peace has two sides in our global context, i.e., internal and external. The internal context of peace for a country is its domestic political, economic and administrative stratification evolved either on equality or inequality, justice or injustice and respect or disrespect for human rights, especially those of women and religious and ethnic minorities. So far as South Asia is concerned, unfortunately, it does not present any good examples. For instance, Pakistan, the second largest country of the geographic block, has till now only deepened conflicts among and subdued voices of different social, ethnic or political groups of its citizens. The establishment of this country has deliberately turned the collective wisdom and strengths of its people into ora of endless insecurity and mistrust. This insecurity and mistrust eventually has sidelined people from the mainstream politics, armed them and enabled the establishment to exploit the national resources without any moral compunction. Similarly, the other South Asian countries also follow this trend.
South Asia Partnership Pakistan has been actively involved in South-South cooperation campaigns for peace, security and human rights in South Asia. It has been a front runner for several networks, peace campaigns and regional forums;

South Asia Small Arms Network (SASA Net)
SASA Net is an initiative for promotion of peace and tolerance in the South Asian region. Since it kicked off five years ago has been actively pursuing South Asian societies and states to expunge small arms industry, control illicit trade of guns, promote regional and global cooperation and change social, political and economic policies in the interest of the people. It continues to register the concerns of the common citizens and the civil society towards conventional and nuclear weapons, pressurize the member states to dismantle their nuclear-bomb facilities and use the resources saved thus for the wellbeing of their citizens.... details

South Asia Peace Alliance (SAPA)
To expand the struggle for making South Asian countries socio-politically tolerant, South Asian Peace Alliance (SAPA) came into existence on April 2006. SAPA is commissioned to work on five thematic thrusts. As far as its programmatic structure is concerned, there is one organization mainly responsible for one thematic thrust. Each member organization however also has to extend its support to other members for complementing their efforts and giving SAPA a wholistic shape. SAPA is therefore a distinguished body because of its ability to allow its members to act independently as well as interdependently.... details

Regional Initiative for the Rights to Sustainable Livelihood and Enabling Environment for Social and Political Participation
“Regional Initiative for the Rights to Sustainable Livelihood and Enabling Environment for Social and Political Participation” has been yet another matter of deep interest to SAP-PK. This project is a regional initiative of the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA). The Consortium was formed in 1997, aiming to advocate and assist in materializing SAARC Social Charter. It is therefore another significant opportunity for SAP-PK to be part of the process of synergies’ development on issues of human rights, particularly of women, peasants and workers, not only at the national but also the regional level. CHA is working exclusively on livelihood, violence against women, human rights, child labor and issue of mainstreaming of the physically challenged out of an exhaustive list of areas as enshrined in the SAARC Social Charter... details

South Asian People's Summit
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
There is a tide in the affairs of nations and regions, but when governments seem reluctant to take it at the flood, the people may have to seize the moment and reassert their vision for the future. The South Asian People’s Summit 2000 at Colombo embodied the determination of its organizers that though the regimes in the region were dilly-dallying over holding the SAARC summit, the people were ready to step into the breach.
However well-intended, the plans and projects of the powers-that-be may not match the needs and priorities of civil society and it is up to the representatives of various sections, associations and professional groups and NGOs to alert the authorities that a change in focus is urgent.

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