Peace economics can be defined as the use of economics to understand the causes and effects of violent conflict in the … international system and the ways that conflict can be avoided, managed, or resolved. This chapter surveys major subject areas of … peace studies; data sources and trends for interstate, intrastate, and extra-state conflict; the costs of conflict; the …

assassination of Benazir Bhutto, of Pakistan, in December 2007.India and Pakistan have been involved in a never-ending conflict over …South Asia is a distinct geographical entity comprised of seven countries - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan … turning out to be the most dangerous place in the world, representing a breeding ground of bloody terror and radical extremism …