On 23 April 2004 Dr Moonis Ahmar, Professor of International Relations at Karachi University gave a talk on "Pakistan's Internal Security Concerns."
Educated at Quaid-e-Azam and Karachi Universities, Dr. Ahmar specialises in conflict resolution and confidence-building issues in South Asia. After a stint at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi, he was appointed to an academic post at Karachi University in 1984. He is also the Director of the successful Programme on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the University, which he established in April 2000. He has held visiting appointments at Universities and think tanks in the US, UK and Bangladesh. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics.
Dr. Ahmar has written extensively on conflict resolution and regional security. His most recent books include The Paradigms of Conflict Resolution in South Asia (ed.) (2003) and The Challenge of Confidence-Building in South Asia (ed.) (2001).
