The SAGE Series in Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes provides an overview
of peace-audit study and explores why many peace processes fail. It provides
comparative analyses of peace processes in South Asia drawn from field-based
audit exercises in four regions: Northeast India; Balochistan, Pakistan;
Madhesh, Nepal; and Chittagong Hills Tracts, Bangladesh.
By placing conflict-affected peoples' perspectives and experiences at the
center, the five volumes explore the gaps between the national elite's vision of
conflict management, pacification, and restoring normalcy vis-à-vis peoples'
expectations of systemic change in the factors that drove the conflicts. The
volumes question the success of peacemaking processes, indexing them on the
quality of democracy by