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• Study of Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia at Harvard University

The South Asia Caucus at the Kennedy School of Government is developing a proposal for establishment of a formal project at Harvard for the Study of Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia.

The project will begin with public seminars on one of the more prominent issues facing South Asia: conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir.

We are also proposing seminars on ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka, nuclear weapons in South Asia, and transnational issues such as drugs, immigration, child labor, and human rights, just to name some of the issues that need attention.

I am writing to request the assistance of all the South Asian students in the area to help us formulate the best possible proposal that we can.

To that end, I would appreciate it if you can pass this email on to the members of your respective organizations, and to other people outside the Boston area (nationally and internationally), and request feedback on the following:

• 1. Who are the various professors at each of your schools who are currently doing research on these issues of importance to the South Asian region? We need copies of catalogs from different schools (whether by fax or email or regular mail) that describe each of the professor's interests and backgrounds.
  
• 2. Who are practitioners and professionals working with non- governmental organizations or the private sector who have expertise on these issues? Again, the more specific background info we can accumulate, the better.
  
• 3. Who are "native" experts on these issues in the South Asian region?
  
• 4. What concrete suggestions do you have for formalizing the Study of Conflict and Cooperation in South Asia at Harvard?
  

If you have contact info of any type for these people, I would really appreciate it if you can forward it to me. We especially need info about experts on the Kashmir and Sri Lanka issues, since those will be the first seminars that we are planning to hold during this semester.

Ultimately, we will put together this list of academic and professional resources as an appendix to our proposal, so that the Harvard administration will be aware of exactly who is available to consult on the project, and, hopefully, teach courses in the area.
We also will put this list of resources on South Asia onto this World Wide Web page.