Presented by the "Global Forces in the Post-Cold War World" Lecture Series
3:00-4:30 p.m. Monday, November 25, 2002
McCune Conference Room
6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building UCSB

With India and Pakistan on the brink of military confrontation, continuing religious violence in Kashmir and the deterioration of Afghanistan following U.S. bombing, most people are unaware that there is a vibrant peacebuilding community in the region. Hassan Yousufzai shares the inside story of the growing movement toward nonviolence in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kashmir.

Hassan Yousufzai, government field officer in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, is currently a Fulbright Scholar visiting the United States. He received a Master's Degree in Political Science from
Peshawar University, Pakistan in 1992. As chief mediator in the tribal area of the Bajaur Agency in 2001-2002, he was instrumental in leading a number of long standing bloody tribal conflicts to peaceful resolution through planned strategy, negotiations and advocacy at the grass root level. He has co-authored several papers on the dynamics of an indigenous Afghani/Pakistani institution called Jirga, a council of elders from amongst a community. His research on conflict transformation and peace building among the Pukhtoon Tribal Jirga in Afghanistan has received funding from the United States Institute of Peace for 2003-2004.

The "Global Forces in the Post-Cold War World" Lecture Series is cosponsored by UC Institute on Global conflict and Cooperation, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Global and International Studies Program, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and Office of Research. It is put on in partnership with the Santa Barbara Committee on Foreign Relations, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, PAX 2100, International Studies Association at Santa Barbara City College, and the International Studies Program at Ventura College. This event is cosponsored by The Everyday Gandhis Project.

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