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Earl Gregg Swem Library

Empowering the Pakistan Police

Categories: Conflict Resolution,Crime/Justice,Pakistan,Terrorism

http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR332-Empowering-the-Pakistan-Police.pdf

 

How to make the police force more effective in countering violent extremism.  Derived from interviews with Pakistani police officials.  From the United States Institute of Peace

 

Pakistan and the Narratives of Extremism

Categories: Democracy/Peace,Pakistan,Terrorism

http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR327-Pakistan-and-the-Narratives-of-Extremism.pdf

Focuses on the inroads extremist narratives have made in Pakistani society and the importance of countering those narratives  to prevent exttremists from destabilizing the country. From the United States Institute of Peace

 

Nuclear Weapons R&D Organizations in Nine Nations

Categories: Arms Control,China,Defense/Military,France,Great Britain,India,Israel,Korea,Nuclear Arms,Pakistan,Russia,Science/Technology

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R40439.pdf

Describes which agency in each of the nine nuclear club nations is responsible for research and development of nuclear weapons, whether these agencies are military or civilian, and the evolution of this agency in the U.S. from 1942 to date.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

 

Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons: Proliferation and Security Issues

Categories: Arms Control,Nuclear Arms,Pakistan

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL34248.pdf

Discusses the size of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and the problems related to security and proliferation.

From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

 

Conflict Dynamics in Gilgit-Baltistan

Categories: Conflict Resolution,Pakistan,Religion/Ethics

http://www.usip.org/files/resources/SR321.pdf

Reports on the recent Sunni-Shia sectarian conflict in a previously relatively peaceful mountainous region of Pakistan and offers ideas for how to reduce the strife.  From the United States Institute of Peace

 

Pakistan in 2013

Categories: Foreign Assistance,Pakistan

http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/RP12-76.pdf

Includes a survey of the electoral landscape in 2013, an assessment of the current government, relations between Pakistan and other countries, and assistance provided by other countries.  Also provides experts’ views of possible futures for Pakistan.   From the House of Commons Library

 

China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles: Policy Issues

Categories: Arms Control,China,Korea,Pakistan,WMD

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL31555.pdf

Discusses the security problem relating to China’s role in arms proliferation and whether U.S. policy with China has been effective.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

 

Direct Overt U.S. Aid Appropriations and Military Reimbursements to Pakistan, FY2002-FY2013

Categories: Defense/Military,Foreign Assistance,Pakistan,Statistics

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/pakaid.pdf

Shows trends in overall aid and military reimbursements to Pakistan since fiscal year 2002.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

 

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