The book examines the intersections of political violence, deprivation and conflict, and explores the prospects of its management by studying one of the world's most complex political turmoils - Kashmir. It closely investigates the vertical aspect of the conflict, in which the Indian state and a section of Kashmiris are engaged in a turbulent relationship, and explores ways to stimulate conflict management. By employing the protracted social conflict theory, the author argues that a conflict between a state and a social group ensues when the political elite fail to address the non-material needs of the marginalized. By documenting narratives of the Kashmiri traders and the state officials, and the impact of the opening of the two intra-Kashmir trade routes during the 1990s, this book emphasizes the need to focus on peace initiatives taken by the government, and the significance of accommodation and engagement to address a state-people conflict.
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Höhe: 242 mm
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Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-108-42389-2 (9781108423892)
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Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra is a Fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy and Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has doctoral degrees from University of Massachusetts and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He was a Charles Wallace Fellow at Queen's University Belfast in 2010, and ICCSR-RAS Fellow in Moscow in 2010. His publications include an edited volume, Conflict and Peace in Eurasia (2013, editor), and Making Kashmir Borderless (2013).
Preface; 1. Kashmir, conflict and the (uncomfortable?) questions; 2. Theorizing conflicts; 3. Protracted social conflict in Kashmir; 4. Peace process, cross-border opening and the engagement; 5. Traders' perspectives; 6. Policy makers' perspective; 7. Conflict management prospects; Select bibliography; Index.