Birth of Bicker: British Bequest

Kashmir is exclusively positioned in the political patchwork of South Asia with a pervasive communal core. It has long been engrossed in its struggle articulated as a chase for identity and protection needs. It borders three civilizations of Central Asia, China, and South Asia, which have implanted elements into the structure of the society. Additionally, against the setting of this dissimilar ethno political landscape, the geopolitical contours of control segregate the state into three regions controlled by India, Pakistan, and China.

With hindsight, Kashmir left as a part of British India would have been dispensed to its destiny in the partition process. Why were the princely states debarred from the partition? Potentially might these small enclaves have endured, left to fend for themselves? Ultimately, obviously, these small enclaves were all enveloped by might.  British by default were accountable for constructing the controversial boundary or Line of Control (LOC) in Kashmir that prolonged the conflict. Britain’s political stance has historically been representative of British diplomacy, a microcosm of their general political preservation instinct. The people of Kashmir are saddened at the country’s taciturn approach and disgusted at their strategy of having to brownnose Americans who have neither past affairs with the region nor any true compulsions to facilitate.

        

Chester A. Crocker’s Grasping the Nettle: Analyzing Cases of Intractable Conflict, classifies and examines the fundamental characteristics and core dynamics of intractable conflicts; conflicts, which, in Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases, are defined as conflicts that, have festered over time and “refuse to yield to efforts—through either direct negations or third-party assistance.” Kashmir, naturally, is characterized in the second half of the volume with an examination on the dispute’s development, an assessment of internal and external factors that have connived to thwart an agreement, and a consideration of whether former conciliatory proposals have in reality merely provoked the dispute.

The work concludes with the message that even conflicts like Kashmir ultimately cease if certain approaches and steps are pursued collectively by world bodies, intergovernmental organizations, and nongovernmental organizations. The conflict of Kashmir, albeit “intractable,” is solvable through the formation of an entity that adheres to unorthodox and nonpartisan approaches employing modern-day thinking and positive attitudes. While conventional diplomatic efforts have often relied on history's victors to guide them through the peace process, it is important to recognize that this strategy may no longer be effective based on the fact that a successful peace effort must be conducive to new social, political, and economical challenges posed by the twenty-first century.