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What are the reasons for stringent border controls in South Asia? Why are they imposed and what purpose do they actually serve? Who gains and loses as a consequence? What are the procedures involved and why have they come about? A collaborative research project sponsored by the Regional Center for Strategic Studies symposium addressed these and related issues. Four distinguished experts, one each from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have separate chapters examining a particular facet reflecting their respective perspectives. Slightly different from each other yet comprising a comprehensive whole.

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Navnita Chadha Behera is Assistant Director, Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) based at Foundation for Universal Responsibility, New Delhi. She completed her doctoral studies at University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K. and was an Assistant Research Professor at Centre for Policy Research from 1994 till 1998. Dr Behera has co-edited Perspectives on South Asia (Konark, 2000) and is co-author of Beyond Boundaries: A Report on the State of Non-official Dialogues on Peace, Security and Cooperation in South Asia (University of Toronto, Canada, 1997). She has also published several research papers in edited volumes and academic journals in India and abroad. Victor Gunawardena is Course Director, Journalism and Communication Project, Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, Colombo. Shahid Kardar is presently Finance Minister, Punjab, Pakistan, and also Director, Systems (Private) Limited, a major consulting and information processing firm based in Lahore, Pakistan. Raisul Awal Mahmood, Ph.D. in Economics, immediate past Chief of the Population Studies Division and a Senior Research Fellow of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS).

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