KARACHI, Dec 22: The Fourth Karachi International Book Fair 2008 begins on December 26 at the Karachi Expo Centre.

Organised by the Pakistan Publishers and Booksellers Association (PPBA) in collaboration with the National Book Foundation, the fair will continue till December 30.

Book on conflict management

The University of Karachi’s department of international relations has announced that a book titled “Conflict Management and the Challenge of Peace” has been published under its programme — Peace studies and conflict resolution.

The book comprises contributions from Lt-Gen (r) Talat Masood, Prof Swaran Singh, Justin Alexander, Ganesh Aryal, Salma Malik, Sumanasri Liyanage, Tehseen Nisaar, Zafar Jaspal, Farhan H. Siddiqi and other scholars.

Case studies of Jammu and Kashmir, Iran-US nuclear conflict and conflict management mechanism in former Yugoslavia, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are some of the subjects discussed by the authors.—APP

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