The field of conflict transformation, (CT) although in its formative phase as compared to conflict management and resolution, became a source of attraction because it tries to understand and examine change(s) in the shape of conflict and scope of its resolution. CT tries to bridge the gaps in the field of conflict studies because of its innovative and creative ideas for lowering the intensity of conflict leading to a final resolution. There are examples of conflicts in South Africa, Namibia, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sino-Russian and Sino-Indian which have been transformed positively. In the least thrity years or so, conflict transformation emerged as a useful teachnique in the developed world for primarily studying the changig nature of conflicts in various developing countries, Relevant, both for the study of inter and intra-state conflicts, conflict transformation is different from conflict management tries to control and regulate the intensity of violent conflict and conflict resolutino aims to terminate the state of conflict, the theory of conflict transformation tries to analyze a conflict from sociological, political, economic and other perspectives. Conflict transformatin can have positive and negative connotations. A conflict can transform from peaceful to a deadly conflict and vice-versa. What is important to know is how the process of conflict transformation takes place and to what extent if monitored properly by the practitioners of conflict resolution, one can expect change in the interest, attitutdes, actors, behaviour and their roles in a conflict situation.
Moonis Ahmar is working as Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, Pakistan and is Director, Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. He specializes in Conflict Resolution and Confidence-Building Measures in the regions of Central Asia, Middle East and South Asia. He is the author of two books, and five monographs He has edited the books entitled, Contemporary Central Asia (Department of International Relations and Hanns Seidel Foundation, 1995), Internal and External Dynamics of South Asia Security (Karachi: Fazleesons, 1998), The CTBT Controversy in South Asia (Karachi: Department of international Relations, 2000), The Challenge of Conflict Resolution, 2001), Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Lessons for South Asia (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001). The Challenge of Confidence-Building in South Asia (New Delhi: Har-Anand Publication, 2001), Paradigms of Conflict Resolution in South Asia (Dhaka: University Press Limited, 2003), The World After September 11: Challenges and Opportunities (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, 2003), Different Perceptions on Conflict Resolution: Need for an Alternate Approach (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, 2005), The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan (Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resoltuions and Hanns Seidel Foundation, 2005) Conflict Management Mechanisms and the Challenge for Peace (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi and the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, (2008), International Relations Taody: Theories, Methods and Areas of Research and Foreign Policy Making Process; a Case Study of Pakistan, (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi 2009), Foreign Policy Making Process: A Case Study of Pakistan (Karachi: Department of International Relations, University of Karachi in Collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, 2009) and Conflict Resolution Research in South Asia (Karachi: Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi in Collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, 2010). He has published his writing in, Asian Survey (Berkeley), BIISS Journal (Dhaka), Contemporary South Asia (Oxford), Central Asia (Peshawar), Eurasian Studies (Ankara), Journal of European Studies (Karachi) IPRI Journal (Islambad) Pakistan Journal of American Studies (Islamabad,) National Development and Security (Islamabad), Nepali Journal of Contemporary Studies (Kathmandu) Pakistan Perpectives (Karachi) Pakistan Journal of American Studies (Islamabad), Peace Initiatives (Mumbai), Regional Studies (Islamabad), South Asian Studies (Lahore), South Asian Affairs (Andhra University, Visakhpahram) Strategic Studies (Islamabad) and World Affairs (New Delhi). He was also the Project Director of Ford Foundation/International Relations Department Research Project, "Peace by Process: Lessons for India and Pakistan from the Middle East," and has also received grant from the United States Institute of Peace, Washington DC and Ploughshares Fund, San Francisco, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad and Faculty of Arts, University of Karachi. Dr. Ahmar has orgnaized serveral Internal and National Workshops, Conferences and Seminars, Dr. Ahmar got the Best Teacher Award in 2006 and 2008 from the Highter Education Commission, Islamabad, UNESCO, National Commission of Human Development, Islamabad and Federal Education Ministry Islamabad.
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