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Resolving the Kashmir Conflict: Pakistan, India, Kashmiris and Religious Militants
5 January, 2009
Dr. Rodrigo Tavares, Research fellow at the United Nations University Centre for Comparative Regional Integration Studies(UNU-CRIS) in Brugge recently had an article published in the Asian Journal of Political Science.
The article, Resolving the Kashmir Conflict: Pakistan, India, Kashmiris and Religious Militants was summarized by Dr. Tavares as follows:
This article introduces a conflict resolution framework to address the Kashmir1 conflict Firstly, Kashmir is mapped out as a multi-dimensional dispute between various parties: besides the interstate dispute between India and Pakistan, Kashmir is also an armed conflict both between India and the Kashmiris over the right of self-determination and between India and the religious militants who are waging a jihad to create a theocratic state. Secondly, in order to understand the complexity of Kashmir,
I introduce an original framework based upon six levels of sovereignty that helps us in underscoring the implications of the bargaining process between India, Pakistan and Kashmir. Based on this, I propose a roadmap for peace, which comprises three successive steps: confidencebuilding measures, restoration of the asymmetric original status of Jammu and Kashmir and, finally, shared sovereignty (partial or total condominium) between India and Pakistan.
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