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Yasmin Saikia was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 14 weeks. Saikia was able to "examine and document the historical and processual development of azadi (freedom) ideas of Illahi, Sindhi, and Shedai that are of particular relevance in understanding the...
Natalya Rahman was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in primarily Karachi, Pakistan for three months. Rahman's "outcome variable, i.e., equitable gender attitudes, has direct implications for the nature of women’s political participation in Pakistan, moving beyon...
Faris Khan was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for 2 months. Khan's project "focuses on how lawyers and non-lawyers alike work with (and within) judicial systems that the international community considers extremely corrupt. It focuses on perceptions and misperceptions of...
Aabiya Noman Baqai was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Baqai's research focuses on "how Christian women from informal settlements re-orient Islamabad’s claim to a single imagined national identity through the buil...
Safoora Arbab was a 2015-16 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom for four months. Arbab's research "is centered on the Khudai Khidmatgar movement begun by Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the late 1920’s. As one of the largest nonviolent organizations they were also thus allied with the Al...
Anita Weiss (University of Oregon) discusses her new book, "Countering Violent Extremism in Pakistan: Local Actions, Local Voices." Dr. Weiss explores how local leaders are speaking out against violent extremism that has permeated Pakistani culture over the past decade.