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Past Event
Seminar

Goodbye or See You Later: Why States Fight Some Secessionists but Not Others

Open to the Public

This seminar examines the variation in state response to secessionism and explains why some secessionist movements are treated with concessions, negotiations, and low levels of violence, while others are dealt with using large-scale violence and repression. Cases: Pakistan's civil war in 1971 versus Pakistan's treatment of Balochi separatists in the mid-1970s.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

Date: Time: - Location: Littauer Building - Belfer Center Library, Room 369
Civilians and young liberation fighters, wounded during a bombing raid by Pakistan Air Force on the East Pakistan town of Chuadanga on April 16, 1971, are loaded into a Landrover to be taken to safety and medical treatment.

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This seminar examines the variation in state response to secessionism and explains why some secessionist movements are treated with concessions, negotiations, and low levels of violence, while others are dealt with using large-scale violence and repression. Cases: Pakistan's civil war in 1971 versus Pakistan's treatment of Balochi separatists in the mid-1970s.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.