Beyond Return and Resettlement: The impact of Exposure and Interactions on the Post-Conflict Development of North Waziristan

As the title suggests, our study documents the impact of exposure and interactions on the post-conflict development of North Waziristan. It avoids the reductionist approach of subjecting the discourse around Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs) to mere marginalized bodies. Instead, our study helps us understand how, through the ‘networks of interactions’ and exposure, returnees can meaningfully…

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Climate Proofing Indus Water Treaty

Mankind is the major environmental force in changing the geological facade of the Earth. Climate change, a human induced phenomenon, has emerged to be reckoned with as a global reality that can neither be denied nor neglected. The global warming and the melting of glaciers around the world at an alarming rate is its prime…

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Shun Power Politics for Sustainable Development

Herman Daly, the renowned ecological economist, in his book, The Steady-State Economics (1977), exposes the fallacy inherent in the concept of unlimited growth which is based on the refusal or failure to realize that the environment, which encloses all socioeconomic activity since the latter takes place within the confines of the former, is a limited…