Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Diminishing Conflicts: learning from the Asia-Pacific Part 1: Conflict diminished? 2. Timor Leste: international intervention, gender and the dangers of negative peace 3. Maluku: anomie to reconciliation 4. Aceh: democratization and the politics of co-option 5. Solomon Islands: from uprising to intervention 6. Punjab: federalism, elections, suppression 7. Sri Lanka: the end of war and the continuation of struggle Part 2: Conflict deferred? 8. Bougainville: conflict deferred? 9. The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT): diminishing violence or violent peace? 10. Eastern Burma: long wars without exhaustion 11. Fiji: the politics of conflict reduction Part 3: Conflict undiminished? 12. Southern Thailand: marginalization, injustice and the failure to govern 13. Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas: cause or symptom of national insecurity? Paul 14. Southern Philippines: the ongoing saga of Moro separatism 15. Kashmir: placating frustrated people 16. The Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea: conflict ignored 17. Conclusion: Lessons

About the Author

Edward Aspinall is a Senior Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University, and is a specialist on the politics of Southeast Asia especially Indonesia. He is the author of Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Stanford University Press, 2009). His research focuses are the comparative politics of democratization, ethnic politics and nationalism. Robin Jeffrey is a Visiting Research Professor in the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His research is on India and South Asia. He wrote What's Happening to India? at the height of the Punjab insurgency. Anthony Regan is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He is a Constitutional Lawyer who has lived and worked in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville and advised in peace processes and post-conflict constitution-making processes in a number of countries, and written extensively on a number of those cases.