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.. More>>