An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, by Dr Khalid Wasim Hassan (IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, 2024-25)
Conflicts in Different Temporal settings: Comparative Study of Northern Ireland and Kashmir
Although at different temporal settings, Northern Ireland and Kashmir present comparable cases with a violent history of conflict, contestation over sovereignty, politics of armed groups and the response of respective multination states of the United Kingdom and India. Kashmir has witnessed the movements for autonomy and self-determination, which resulted in a cycle of violence for three decades. Unlike Kashmir, Northern Ireland saw the resolution of its conflict in 1998 with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which created a robust regime of power-sharing between the Catholics and Protestants and also created a web of institutions that bound the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland together. In the case of the Kashmir conflict, the attempts of peace negotiations at different periods fizzled out due to the intransigent positions held by the stakeholders. If the same ‘autonomy model’ is followed to address the demands of self-determination in Kashmir, there could be a possibility that people across faiths and de-facto borders, as well as political authority in India and Pakistan, can begin to repair the damage caused by this ongoing dispute.
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