Abstract
For the last sixty years or so, India-Pakistan relations have marked by both
hope and despair. Although several efforts of conflict resolution have been made
between the two neighboring countries, the south Asian region is still far away
from witnessing long-lasting peace. The long-standing dispute on Kashmir has
actually impeded the process of conflict resolution between the two countries.
This paper examines the need of conflict resolution between India and Pakistan,
particularly on the issue of Kashmir, by looking at the genesis of the dispute,
various efforts to resolve the dispute, the nature of the Kashmir dispute and
devising a new approach for its resolution. It is argued that over a period of
time the nature of the Kashmir dispute has been changed. It is neither a
territorial nor a religious dispute between India and Pakistan, but a dispute of
the denial of the right of self-determination to the people of Kashmir. After the
9/11 incident, the dynamics of domestic, regional and international politics have
changed. Therefore, it is high time that both India and Pakistan adopt a forward
looking approach to bridge the trust-deficit and reach a consensus on the
resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
Naeem Ahmed. (2011) THE NEED OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN SOUTH ASIA: A CASE STUDY OF KASHMIR DISPUTE BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN, Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Volume 50, Issue 2.
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