Radicalization in Pakistan

This book offers a critical analysis of radicalization in Pakistan by deconstructing the global and the official state narratives designed to restrain Pakistani radicalization.

Autorentext

Muhammad Shoaib Pervez is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Management and Technology, Pakistan. His book Security Community in South Asia, also published by Routledge (2012), was awarded the National Outstanding Research Award for the best book in Social Science 2012 by the Higher Education Commission, Government of Pakistan. He was also the Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at SIPA, Columbia University, USA from 2014 to 2015.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Part I Educational Aspect 2. Education and Radicalization in Pakistan: A Post-Colonial Perspective 3. Teaching Toward a Culture of Peace: Analysis of Islamiyat and Ethics Textbooks 4. Infusing Cultural Diversity into Pakistan Studies Textbooks: An Analysis of Textbooks and Teachers' Perspectives Part II Religious Aspect 5. Pacifying Sunni-Sh'ite Relations in Pakistan: Patterns of (De)Humanization and Prospects of Trust-Building Part III Geopolitical Aspect 6. The radicalized regional order of India-Pakistan and prospects of a Security Community 7. Deconstructing the Myth of Pashtuns being Extremist and Warrior Nation: Causes of radicalization in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 8. Conclusion