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1 Abbreviations AFSPA AMP ANU ASEAN BBC BJP BNP BRA CEO CHT CIA CID CMDP COIN CPI-M CPN-M CPN-UML DGFI DRC ECOWAS EPDP EU Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (India) Awareness, Motivation and Pathways The Australian National University Association of Southeast Asian Nations British Broadcasting Corporation The Bharatiya Janata Party (India) The Bangladesh Nationalist Party Bougainville Revolutionary Army chief executive officer Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh) Central Intelligence Agency (United States) Criminal Investigation Department (Sri Lanka) Citizens Movement for Democracy and Peace (Nepal) counterinsurgency conceived as comprehensive civilian and military efforts to contain insurgency and address its root causes Communist Party of India (Marxist) Communist Party of Nepal Maoist Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (Bangladesh) Democratic Republic of Congo Economic Community of West African States Eelam People s Democratic Party (Sri Lanka) European Union xiii

2 Cascades of Violence EVAW Law FATA FBI GDP HDC HSZ ICC ICG IDP IED IMF IMU IOM IPKF IR IRA ISAF ISI J&K JI JKLF JKNLF JMB JMJB JRB JSD JSS Law on Elimination of Violence against Women (Afghanistan) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Pakistan) Federal Bureau of Investigation (United States) gross domestic product Hill District Council high-security zone International Criminal Court International Crisis Group internally displaced person improvised explosive device International Monetary Fund Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan International Organization for Migration Indian Peacekeeping Forces international relations Irish Republican Army International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan) Inter-Services Intelligence (Pakistan) Jammu and Kashmir Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front Jammu and Kashmir National Liberation Front Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh) Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini (National Defence Force of Bangladesh) Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (or Jasod) (National Socialist Party Bangladesh) Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (United People s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts) (also known as PCJSS) xiv

3 Abbreviations JUH Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind (Organisation of Indian Islamic Scholars) JUI-F breakaway faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Pakistan) JUI-S Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (Pakistan) JVP Marxist Janathā Vimukthi Peramuņa (People s Liberation Front Sri Lanka) KDP Kurdistan Democratic Party KLA Kosovo Liberation Army KPK Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (Pakistan) KPSS Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti LGBTIQ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka) MILF Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Philippines) MMA Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (Pakistan) MONUSCO United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo MUF Muslim United Front (Jammu and Kashmir) NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States) NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization NGO non-governmental organisation NLD National League for Democracy (Myanmar) OCHA United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PATA Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pakistan) PBSP Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (Proletarian Party of East Bengal) PCJSS Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (United People s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts) (also known as JSS) xv

4 Cascades of Violence PCP PDP PGP PKK PML-N POW PPP PSA PTI PTSD PYD RAW RPA RPF RSS SAARC SDF SHIK SIGI SPLA TMVP TNSM TTP UAE UBA UK UN UNHCR UNITA Pahari Chhatra Parishad (Hill Students Forum Bangladesh) Peoples Democratic Party (Jammu and Kashmir) Pahari Gono Parishad (Hill People s Council Bangladesh) Kurdistan Workers Party Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz prisoner of war Pakistan Peoples Party Public Safety Act 1978 (Jammu and Kashmir) Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf post-traumatic stress disorder Democratic Union Party (Syria) Research and Analysis Wing (Indian intelligence) Rwanda Patriotic Army Rwandan Patriotic Front Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Organisation, India) South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Syrian Democratic Forces (Kurdish) Shërbimi Informativ Kombëtar (Kosovo National Intelligence Service) Social Institutions and Gender Index Sudan People s Liberation Army Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (Pakistan) Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (Pakistani Taliban) United Arab Emirates United Baloch Army (Pakistan) United Kingdom United Nations United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees National Union for the Total Independence of Angola xvi

5 UNMIK United Nations Mission in Kosovo Abbreviations UNMOGIP United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNPREDEP United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (Macedonia) UP Uttar Pradesh (India) UPDF United People s Democratic Front (Bangladesh) US United States VHP Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council, India) WHO World Health Organization WMD weapons of mass destruction YPG People s Protection Units (Kurdish) xvii

6 This text is taken from Cascades of Violence: War, Crime and Peacebuilding Across South Asia, by John Braithwaite and Bina D Costa, published 2018 by ANU Press, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

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