Peace, Conflict & Development (PCD)

Research Group:

Development, Peace and conflict (Development, Peace group) is set up to meet the contemporary challenges of human security.  Security is a basic human need. The state provides a peaceful society, and an environment free from internal and external threats. In this endeavor, Development studies department takes it as a challenge to produce such quality graduates with the aim and concern to propose and facilitate state institutions, as academicians, researchers, analysts and human security expert development practitioners. Our graduates are fully mindful and attentive to the complexities of social, economic, and political development in the Pakistani context, and the development challenges of the new global security paradigm where internal and external dimensions of security are important, simultaneously. A series of research projects are underway by individual researchers  at the department to meet the human security challenges e.g. Horizontal e.g. Horizontal violence, relative depriviation, political clientalisim, constitutional fundamental rights, spread of religious rights, religious narrative building in the age of hybrid warfare rights, religious research team is also looking into the regional changing patterns of human security with a special attention to the change happening in Afghanistan and its possible consequences for Pakistan. The purpose of the whole research journey of this group is to explore and propose feasible solutions to the challenges of human security of our homeland and people. DCC Research Group has an interdisciplinary team. Members of the group are: Ms Fariha Tahir (LLB IUB Pak., MS Middlesex University UK) Dr. Arsalan Waheed (PhD ZEF University of Bonn, Germany) [Since 2017, over 40 individual research projects/theses are successfully completed in the domain. The extracted research papers are published/under-review in peer-review/HEC Pak. Recognised journals, locally and globally].