Internal Armed Conflict in South Asia and Implication to Nepal

Abstract

Intrastate conflicts have been deeply rooted in most of the South Asian countries and became a great security challenge. Intrastate conflict is the main cause of South Asian countries which greatly hampering the development and prosperity of the region. The development activities are hugely paralyzed due to conflict. Almost all countries are victim of armed conflict though current situation of some countries is an exception. Terrorism, separatist movements, extremism, ideological conflicts and MaoistsNaxalites' movements with other several campaigns have imposed huge obstruction in

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prosperity and development of the entire South Asian region. All South Asian countries directly or indirectly inflected with armed conflicts and had huge negative impact of those conflicts and large amount of money is spending to fight against terrorism and armed conflicts. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is passive in the subject of intrastate conflict in South Asian and its initiation to fight against terrorism and organized crime is futile. Economic cost of violence, physical destruction, forced migration, displacement, local conflict, exploitation of child and woman are some of the negative impact that play vital role for the instability of the region. Similarly, Poor governance, poor representation, lack of accountability, lack of ethos in public service, role of big man, poor policing, rigged election, discrimination, poverty, global and local aspiration, development induced displacement, land and natural resources, social-structural and cultural system, population, family dispersal, distortion on government spending, power of corporate actor, regional imperialism, economy, gender bias, identity politics, low legal literacy, media bias, prevalence of arms, militarization, history and culture are some of the factors that are contributing and strengthening internal armed conflicts in South Asia.