Terrorism in South Asia : Impact on Development and Democratic Process
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/Sridhar K. Khatri. I. Economic and political costs of terrorism: a global perspective: 2. Global terrorism: trends and response/Georg Witschel. 3. Costs of terrorism and deadly conflict: who should care, and why should they care?/John M. Richardson Jr. 4. Discussant/Amena Mobsin. 5. Discussant/Afsir Karim. II. Economic cost of terrorism in South Asia: national perspectives: 6. Economic cost of terrorism in South Asia: the case of Bangladesh/A.K.M. Atiqur Rahman. 7. The Maoist movement in Nepal: the economic implications/Mahendra P. Lama. 8. Economic costs of civil unrest in South Asia: Nepal\'s experience/Suman K. Sharma. 9. Terrorism, development and democracy: the case of Pakistan/Akmal Hussain. 10. Managing the Sri Lankan economy at a time of terrorism and war/Saman Kelegama. III. Impact of terrorism on democratic development in South Asia: national perspectives: 11. Impact of terrorism on development and the democratic process: Bangladesh\'s perspective/Matiur Rahman. 12. The effects of terrorism on Indian democracy/Kanti Bajpai. 13. Perspectives on terrorism: democratic and international developments/I.P. Khosla. 14. The spectre of terror and its impact on the democratic process in Nepal/Lok Raj Baral. 15. Impact of terrorism on democratic development in South Asia: Pakistan\'s perspective/Ijaz Hussain. 16. Reflections on the secessionist insurrection in Sri Lanka: consequences for Sri Lanka, and lessons for the international community/Jagath P. Senaratne. 17. Discussant/Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha. 18. Discussant/Dhruba Kumar. IV. Political and economic consequences of terrorism in Sri Lanka and the road to peace: 19. The peace process in Sri Lanka: how difficult, how different?/P. Saravanamuttu. V. Political consequences of terrorism on interstate relations: 20. Terrorism and interstate relations in South Asia/A.D. Muni. 21. Political consequences of terrorism on interstate relations/Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema. 22. Contemporary terrorism and the state, non-state, and the interstate: newer drinks, newer bottles/Imtiaz Ahmed. 23. Discussant/M. Shafiullah. VI. Combating terrorism through cooperation: 24. Developing a cooperative framework for dealing with terrorism/Kumar Rupesinghe. 25. Combating terrorism: devising cooperative countermeasures/P.R. Chari. 26. Security Organization for South Asia (SOSA): mechanism for conflict resolution in South Asia/Niaz A. Naik. 27. Discussant/Moonis Ahmar. VII. Conclusions: 28. Work that needs to be done on terrorism: conclusions/Muchkund Dubey.
"Following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. on 11 September 2001, South Asia emerged as the epicentre of the war against terrorism, with the involvement of the American and coalition forces against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The developments brought into focus not only the spectre posed by the threat of global terrorism, but also the dangers which terrorism poses within and among the countries of the region.
In South Asia, there is a consensus that terrorism has a negative impact on economic development, but the assessment differs significantly depending on the experience of individual countries. There is, therefore, a need to develop a common methodology to calculate the costs of conflicts which should be able to demonstrate, among other things, that conflicts are responsible for the economic ills of countries. Such an exercise would be incomplete without a better understanding of the economy of terrorism, including the sources and methods of its financing and its economic networking. Similarly, there is also a consensus in the region that terrorism undermines and weakens the democratic structure of countries, but it is not yet fully clear how that is done. Most papers in the present volume have attempted to address both the causes and consequences of terrorism, and strongly underscore the need for case-by-case study of individual terrorist groups to see how they have impacted on the state structure." (jacket)
