BACKGROUND Perinatal depression is highly prevalent in South Asia. Although effective and culturally feasible interventions exist, a key bottleneck for scaled-up delivery is lack of trained human resource. The aim of this study was to adapt an evidence-based intervention so that local women from the community (peers) could be trained to deliver it, and to test the adapted intervention for feasi...

Limiting competition, preventing interstate conflict among members and fostering regional orders in Southeast Asia has been a central and continuous feature since the establishment of ASEAN.ASEAN is always imperative to sustain its credibility by providing the platform of interactions in East Asia and the rest of the world. From its inception South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation is...

the 56th pugwash conference on science and world affairs opened with a key note address by the italian minister of foreign affairs, massimo d’alema, and the un secretary-general ban ki-moon’s message in bari, italy, on 21 october 2008. in the week-long meeting, the participants discussed a wide array of topics related to regional security issues such as the status of nuclear arms control, the r...

Although many argue that since Modi took over, Indo-Pak peace became a mirage yet, this paired minority conflict started in 1947. At present, any discussion the west on India-Pakistan relations implicates Pakistan for all wrongs with relationship. What is missing from narrative lack of clear Indian position and policy towards Pakistan. New Delhi's policy? How Delhi intends to address its proble...

This study aims to determine the view of international law on dispute over Kashmir region between India and Pakistan as a form conflict resolution efforts. The legal research used is normative or what commonly referred library with acquisition secondary data sourced from internet. results show that status under being contested because both declare their territory. arises political interest two ...

In addition to being a major cause of mortality in South Asia, childhood diarrhea creates economic burden for affected households. We used survey data from sites in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan to estimate the costs borne by households due to childhood diarrhea, including direct medical costs, direct nonmedical costs, and productivity losses. Mean cost per episode was $1.82 in Bangladesh, $3...

States’ trade policies are primarily determined by their desire to increase their domestic benefit in international economic transactions and to minimize their adverse consequences. Mercantilism and liberalism have been competing ideologies based on fundamentally different concepts of states’ relationships and transactions among them. 1 The purpose of the paper is to analyze the issue of trade ...

the link between international conflict and economy linkage is one of the focal subjects in international political economy (ipe). the aim of this article is to scrutinise the impact of the economic factor on managing indo-pakistan conflict based on ipe approaches. so, the article organizes as follows: first, it is tried to provide a brief coherent theoretical framework concentrated on conflict...