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Manohar Publishers & Distributors Making Kashmir Borderless (RCSS Policy Studies 51) by Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra
In the globalized world, borders have escaped the realist encumbrance of being state-centric and have attained new meanings as lines of contact, commerce, and cooperation. Many argue that Kashmir, involved in one of the most protracted conflicts in the world, cannot escape from an approach that not only refuses to accept violence as a method of resolution but also widens the discourse by focusing on the people at the center stage of conflict transformation. This study is motivated by two objectives. First, it aims to rescue the space inhabited by the borderlanderspeople who live on borders and become direct victims of violenceas it views that space not as a piece of territory to be fought over but as a space in which borderlanders identity, sociocultural life, and economic livelihood thrived for centuries, even surpassing the lifespan of the current nation-state mechanism. Second, this study scrutinizes the on-going bottom-up peace process in Kashmir, which indicates that methods employing violence have become obsolete.