Worldview

Intractable Conflicts

Many of the regional conflicts in the news today involve issues that have seemingly always been the source of bitter disputes. In trying to keep abreast with recent developments in these regions, it is easy to forget how these conflicts began.

This Worldview series provides a range of perspectives on the sources of many of these intractable conflicts and enables listeners to put the current disputes into a historical context.

Cyprus:

	Perspectives on the Situation in Cyprus	Map of Cyprus This 2001 map is from the University of Texas at Austin and was sized to fit this page. Click on the map to view a larger image
Gustave Feissel — Former assistant secretary-general and chief of mission of the United Nations operation in Cyprus, 35-year veteran of the United Nations

Korea:

	Political History of Korea Originally broadcast on 06.12.02	Map of North and South Korea This 2001 map is from the University of Texas at Austin and was sized to fit this page.
Bruce Cumings — Professor of history at the University of Chicago and author of Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History

Kashmir:

	History and Politics in Kashmir Originally broadcast on 06.05.02	Map of Kasmir and Jammu (1999 U.N. map) Click on this map to view a larger image. (Requires Adobe Acrobat)
Robert Wirsing — Professor in the College of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
	Kashmiri Perspective on Kashmir Originally broadcast on 06.05.02
Ghulam Nabi Fai — Executive director of the Kashmiri American Council
	Indian and Pakistani Views on the Political History of Kashmir Originally broadcast on 06.06.02
Akbar Ahmed — Chairman of Islamic studies and professor of international studies at American University Sumit Ganguly — Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions since 1947
Subjects discussed: The origins of the conflict The plebiscite Importance of Kashmir Independence U.N. role and other outside intervention