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Role of Culture in Establishing Peace
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Peace is a desired goal. No person, community or nation can be found in the world that does not want peace, even does not work for peace. We the people irrespective of race religion, culture, ethnicity and nationality have experienced many peace movements, which prime aim is to establish peace, notably in Europe, in different times. Therefore, it can strongly be argued that the endeavor to establish peace is as old as human civilization.
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Youth, Sports & World Cup Cricket 2011
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The World Cup 2011, the biggest cricket show on the earth, has been started with a flamboyant opening hosted by Bangladesh. Bangladesh earns good points in exposing its soft power as a capable country to host an international event like World Cup. The other two hosts India and Sri Lanka join the band with their vast cricket loving people. Now, the show gets a South Asian exposure. The most important things are the performance of youths who are players and supporters as well. The young players are the centre of people’s hope and the nations get united on the well wish of the respective countries as young players are representing the national urge. What a fantastic expression of nationalism and love for country!
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Youth Role in Combating Climate Change effects in Urban Areas of Bangladesh
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Bangladesh is one of the worst affected countries of climate change on the one hand and rapid unplanned & substandard urbanization on the other. The relationship between climate change and cities is complex. City-based activities contribute significant amounts of greenhouse gases and, simultaneously, are often more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Dhaka is now the world's eighth largest city and a significant proportion of Bangladesh's greenhouse gases are generated here. At the same time it is prone to damaging and costly flooding, both from the rivers that bound it and from rainfall that generates runoff that is beyond the capacity of the drains. In less than 20 years, the city has faced three major floods, each causing huge damage and economic loss. We are facing streams of village people toward the capital Dhaka as well as the urban centers most of whom are climate refugees. People also migrate to the cities in search of lively hood as agriculture based village economy is exhausted to support the huge population with decreasing fertility as well as desertification and soil water which are also impact of climate change.
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Bangladesh’s Maritime Claim
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The claim over the extended continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal and the great potential for the presence of Hydrocarbon has created tension among Bangladesh, India and Myanmar. These countries have failed to go to a solution in bilateral and trilateral. So the peaceful settlement of maritime boundary dispute is now at the hand of compulsory arbitration under the UNCLOS.
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Sharing of Waters in South Asia: A Threat to Regional Stability and Security
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With the number of people who do not have access to safe water rising just over 1 billion to 2 billion by 2025 (roughly one third of the world population), water scarcity represents a major political, economic and human rights issue driving vulnerability and conflict (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2010). Many scholars claim, therefore, the next world war will be fought over water resources (Yoffe, 2003). According to this thesis, a scarcity of natural resources can lead to conflicts and violence especially in developing countries. This scarcity can have security implications and these security implications can lead to regional instability and insecurity. One such resource that has the potential to lead to a crisis in South Asia is water resource. Water issues in South Asia are especially threatening because the political equation between a numbers of the countries in the region is highly volatile, be it India–Pakistan, India‐ Bangladesh or India‐Nepal. Moreover, water disputes are not recent phenomena (Malhotra, 2010). In addition to, another important security implication of water dispute is that both the perception and reality of water demand in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta have changed radically since India and Pakistan became independent in 1947. With over 200 million people, the delta has experienced more than doubling of water demand in the period. Despite the huge increase in the development and use of groundwater, southwestern Bangladesh and southern West Bengal have experienced increasing water shortages (Brichieri-Colombi & Bradnock, 2003; 43-64). It should also be noted that South Asia is also experiencing intra-state conflict over water sharing notably the conflict between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on river Kaveri. It is very easy to assess that the security and stability of the region as well as the success of SAARC in future depends ultimately on the water-sharing issue. This paper attempts to highlight the existing debates and arguments on water sharing problem, and provides some recommendation on how conflict can be an area of cooperation between states of South Asia. Water Sharing Dispute in South Asia Since the second half of the twentieth century, South Asia, one of the most populous and thirsty regions of the world, has been experiencing international water-related conflict. The first major water-related dispute was concerned with the river Indus between India and Pakistan which was resolved by these two states in the early 1960s through concluding an agreement assisted by the World Bank (Cited from Subedi, 1999; 953-962). At the same time as the question of the Indus was being resolved, a dispute over the waters of the Ganges River between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) was brewing. Another major addition to the water-related problems of South Asia was concerned with the waters and status of the Mahakali River, a tributary of the Ganges that forms the border between India and Nepal.
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Sharing of waters in South Asia: A threat to regional stability and security.........
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South Asia today possesses all the ingredients for a potential geopolitical nightmare. State failure in any one of the region’s most vulnerable countries could prove potentially devastating for stability in the region as a whole. Agreement on traditional security concerns is often hampered by conflicting domestic political and foreign policy priorities of South Asian states. However, there are emerging non-traditional security issues in South Asia that are of common concern to countries across the region. The 21st century is wrought with such “non-traditional” challenges as looming food and water resource crises, the often devastating environmental impacts of climate change, and the threat of pandemic diseases that cut across geographic boundaries. All of these, as witnessed in recent years, have an immediate human impact on South Asian countries, with implications for both future domestic and regional stability. Calamities in any one of these areas bear the very real potential to exacerbate conditions contributing to traditional security threats in the region.
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SAARC for a better future
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SAARC or the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation which was established in December 1985 is a regional organization dedicated to develop the economical, technological, social, and cultural status of the South Asian nations. Having a regional organization is the way to success for countries in our region, apart from India and Pakistan most of the countries in this region doesn’t posses the ability to transform into a power house in the current political arena alone. SAARC which was originally introduced to uphold living standards of the people living in the South Asian region and also to bring the economic status of the region to a better position however failed to achieve its targets. Compared with the other regional organizations like European Union (EU) which has transformed into a major power house in the world political and economic arena, SAARC is far behind from its expected targets and it is evident that in present that SAARC is just another organization with great expectations but yet do anything better to the region.
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Borderlanders Perceptions on India’s Aggression in Border Areas of Bangladesh
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