"This book offers contemporary perspectives on the ongoing conflicts in the Eurasia. It explores a range of Eurasian conflicts, including Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia or Abkhazia, with an emphasis on the attempts towards peace.
Chapters bring into focus how various factors such as ethnicity, religion, boundary disputes, and animosities inherited from the past, play crucial roles in these conflicts. Providing a prism to look at instability and volatility, they widen the analysis of various intricate and interlinked developments in the region. The book addresses important questions concerning the possibility of a harmonious coexistence of diverse identities within a broader framework of national idea and whether approaches to peace undertaken by local, regional and international parties for conflict resolution yield positive results in terms of managing conflicts. It furthers the development of a framework of study of Eurasian conflicts in the post-Soviet world, while taking into account both internal and external variables in analyzing these conflicts."
My chapter, Peace through Development: Resolving Uyghur Issues through Participation, looks at how a rights-based approach to development cross-cuts the various seams of contention between the Chinese government and the Uyghur grassroots. Through genuine and meaningful participation in decision making at the community and regional level, Uyghur concerns may effectively be mainstreamed into Chinese policy making.
