South Asia: Peace by Peaceful Means

Pages:229-230
Saroj Bala (Department of Political Science, C.M.K. P.G. College Sirsa, Haryana)

In the period that we are living right now, among the numerous victories of progress, of globalization and of industrialization in South Asia, still one cannot deny the persistence of different conflicts that involves the whole world. South Asia happened to be a region of intensive security dilemma. The nuclear tests conducted by India and Pakistan have shifted its entire security focus from the conventional to that of the nuclear. The threat of weapons of mass destruction and the battle against poverty, hunger, environment pollution, violence, demand strongly all the attention and concrete action of Governments and International Organizations.