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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert visited USIP April 12 to discuss the India-Pakistan relationship, security sector governance and North Korea and the Pacific Rim. Countries: India, North Korea, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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USIP briefed Air Force Lieutenant General Richard Y. Newton III. The briefing outlined USIP’s efforts to promote dialogue between India and Pakistan and ease tensions in the volatile Kashmir region; to harness the power of technology for crisis mapping, humanitarian response, and interagency coordination; and USIP’s training programs. Countries: India, Kashmir, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding
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USIP is engaged in research and dialogue on India-Pakistan relations. This brief applies a problemsolving lens and draws upon the lessons provided by the Track II dialogue process. |
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USIP’s Moeed Yusuf discusses the tragic bombings in Mumbai, India – and why these sparked immediate international and regional concerns. |
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By expanding tourism across Kashmir, India and Pakistan could strengthen the cross-border economic and personal interconnections that will pave the way for peacebuilding. |
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If one were asked to identify the top two or three developments that could promote sustained stability in Pakistan, and even peace in South Asia, all of them would be directly or indirectly linked to India-Pakistan normalization. Countries: India, Kashmir, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy
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The 2011 Conference on Disarmament began contentiously when Pakistan’s representative criticized U.S. support for full Indian membership in export control organizations that would allow it to engage in nuclear trade. This Peace Brief seeks to capture some of the areas of contention, including the Pakistani block of a fissile material cutoff treaty, and place them in the context of Pakistan’s larger strategic and security concerns vis-à-vis India. Countries: India, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, WMD, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control
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This report, commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace, examines the Indus Waters Treaty and its role in contemporary international hydropolitics in the Indus basin, paying particular attention to the most recent river development projects on the Indian side of the Indus’s three western tributaries. Conflicts around contemporary large-scale water development projects in the Indian and Pakistani parts of the Indus basin are also reviewed. Countries: India, Kashmir, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Political Reform, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding
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In November 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama took a ten-day trip throughout Asia to focus on economic issues. However, his first stop in India put a spotlight on the long-running tensions between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region. Countries: Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Pakistan, United States
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Economics and Conflict, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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For now, violent clashes in Indian-controlled Kashmir between young Kashmiris and Indian security forces may appear to have died down. But these conflicts remain highly visible on the Internet, where youth are using social media to continue to air their grievances and advance their cause, according to panelists who spoke at the United States Institute of Peace on October 5th. |