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Mohammad Waseem
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 Professor
and Chairman
Quaid-I-Azam University, International Relations Department
Ethnic and Islamic Militancy in Pakistan
Pakistan
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Professor Mohammad Waseem is a political scientist. Currently,
he is the Chairman of International Relations Department
Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) Islamabad. He has published
extensively on patterns of civil-military conflict, ethnic
conflict and Islamic/ sectarian conflict. He has also written
on electoral politics, democracy, identity and federalism
in Pakistan in general. He has been awarded several fellowships,
including the Pakistan chair at St Anthony's College Oxford
for four years, Fulbright Fellowship at Columbia University
New York, Congressional fellowship in Washington DC and
Ford Foundation Fellowship at Oxford. He has taught at QAU
Islamabad, SOAS London and Wadham College Oxford. He is
on the editorial boards of international journals. He has
also served as the team leader of research projects sponsored
by Department For International Development (DFID) London
and UNDP Islamabad.
Selected Publications:
"Sectarian Conflict in Pakistan." In KM
de Silva, ed. Conflict and Violence in South Asia.
Kandy, ICES, 2001: 19-89.
"Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan - Case of Mohajir Nationalism."
In G. Peiris and SWR Samarasinghe, eds. Millennial Perspectives.
Colombo, 1999: 425-479.
"Partition of Punjab: A Comparative Study of Migration
and Assimilation." In Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh,
eds. Partition and Region: Punjab and Bengal. Karachi,
Oxford U Press, 1999: 203-277.
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Ethnic and Islamic Militancy in Pakistan
This research proposal aims at looking at ethnic and Islamic
violence in Pakistan and suggesting policy recommendations
to promote civic harmony. It is based on a contextual rather
than a textual approach to political Islam. It is a critique
of cultural determinism, which underscores the understanding
of Islam and the West as two opposing essentialisms and
mega-constructs, projected by Islamists on the one hand
and reflected through certain sections of the media and
academia in the West on the other.
I plan to discuss the contemporary Islamic militancy in
Pakistan with reference to the patterns of public response
to exercise of power by the state. This is an attempt to
delineate the sources of intra-state conflict, which changed
the dynamics of national and regional politics in recent
years. I understand that the main objective of NCS Program
is to analyze the emerging malaise of the contemporary world
in the form of ideologically motivated patterns of political
violence. I also understand that NCS Program aims at developing
certain conceptual frameworks and policy structures, which
can help rebuild crisis-prone societies such as Pakistan
along civic patterns of public behavior. My research project
seeks to address these issues in the framework of ethnic
and Islamic politics, which transcends the language of civic
liberties, political freedoms, rule of public representatives
and public policy.
I propose to develop a model of transnational networking
of civil society across the Muslim world and beyond, with
a view to reshape the intellectual and professional currents
of opinion along the global agenda of peace and harmony.
I look forward to communicating with fellow colleagues of
NCS Program in a collaborative effort to understand the
phenomenon of violence and evolve a policy structure on
that basis.
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