Abstract
ASEAN is widely praised for its establishing regional cooperation among countries of
Southeast Asia and attracting countries from rest of the world too because of its core
objective of bringing peace and stability in the region. Promotion of regional trade and
investment followed by unprecedented economic growth is the major credit of ASEAN
which is widely appreciated. Nevertheless, despite 50 years of its age, it hasn’t been fully
successful in managing internal conflicts among its member states and conflicts with
external states. Its ineffectiveness to manage conflicts have raised concerns over the
relevance of ASEAN in 21st century where Asian continent is said to be playground for
major powers because of shifting of epicenter of International Politics from America and
Europe to Asia. ASEAN’s role is limited by its charter of Non-interference into the
internal affairs of its member states. This article looks into the basic weaknesses in
ASEAN as an organization thus providing recommendation to overcome its shortcomings
and improve its performance. The article concludes that ASEAN, because of increasing
demands of amendments in conflict management techniques due to changes in the nature
of conflict, needs to transform from its modest goals and principles to deal with conflict
to new trends of conflict management, perhaps from soft mediation to hard mediation in
near future.
Naureen Nazar Soomro, Ronaque Ali Behan, Sohni Siddiqui. (2019) ASEAN(‘S) WAY OF CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: ACTIVE AND EFFECTIVE ROLE, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 58, Issue 1.
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