About UPP
Understanding Pakistan Project Team May 27th, 2007
Understanding Pakistan Project
The “Understanding Pakistan” Project is designed to help us look behind to see ahead. It is a collaborative effort to enable us to learn from each other and discover our fascinating past. Each week, starting from June 4th until October 13th, a panel of distinguished writers will examine and critique a certain period of Pakistan’s history (1940-2007). These individuals, through their varying backgrounds in policy, media, political science, and public service, bring their varying perspectives and biases to this collective reading of the country’s history. It is important to appreciate that none of these viewpoints and perspectives are true or false in their entirety, but they are merely that, perspectives, and that the first step we can take towards building a more wise, just, and tolerant society is to develop the ability to listen to, and appreciate each other’s viewpoints.
Understanding Pakistan will be a central point for this collaborative thinking and collective learning. An email list will disseminate each week’s discourse to the wider audience who would then be invited to present their own ideas, thoughts, and additions on the blog. Special emphasis will be paid on developing a mechanism to promote substantive and thought provoking discussion and to encourage the collection of further evidence to develop a more comprehensive and well-rounded resource on the history of the country.
This, we sincerely hope, will elevate the dialogue to a level higher than has sometimes been the case. It will also, we hope, make us better informed citizens and provide impetus for future action.
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FPTV of Foreign Policy magazine just released our interview with the Pakistani Ambassador to the US Mahmud Ali Durrani. Check it out and post it on your blog.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3954