- Solving Kashmir
Problem by People’s Way
By K.Asif
If the state of affairs allow it, the solution for the
Kashmir dispute is as near as the next day, save for the
things shape up well. Recent events can be seen as
provisions that shall steer the valley in the right
direction. All that needs to be done by the folks whether
bipartite, or tripartite, is “to accept the situation”.
The receiving end as it is, now a days, India, has to play
a vital role. As of now India never seems to accept
Kashmir as a conflict. To remind India consistently, even
after so much violence and disturbance, that Kashmir a
conflict is itself a conflict. If one among the multi
party in India accept it the others censure the idea.
Perhaps just to be different.
In the same line of context, I would like to extrapolate
my own interpretation of the cause. I presume that it is a
high time that the cause and cure of the malaise is
measured. Internal as well as external contentions should
be kept to a minimum. I know that it would take a lot of
time to understand the gravity of the situation but if
bombed into oblivion this time, the argument and the
disagreement will take decades to decide. The controversy
is now old enough and has to be taken strongly. There has
been sufferings from all the sides and the outcome has
always been severe. Blood, money, time, energy, everything
has been put in and the net productivity is still marked
as zero.
But is it easy to decipher such an equation? How much time
would it take? Are the players of the game in earnest to
come to the terms directly? Or would they like to prolong
it until their political gains are met. As for conflict,
the wee side of it, is obviously darker. Conflict is never
like arithmetic. There is not always a solution waiting to
be found and, if there is a solution, it is unlikely to be
the only one. The meetings may go on, round-tables would
seldom turn tables, CBM’s may help to a little extent.
Swiss psychologist Carl Jung once wrote that
"The greatest and most important problems of life are all
fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only
outgrown”.
But do not be quailed, let us not persist with the
status-quo. That has to be broken down and we should have
to perk up, find a resolution.
If people at the helm of affairs are serious and sincere
enough to conclude the conflict theory right here, right
now, then the pages of history have to be erased. Forget
what history would serve or what the obsolete territorial
documents have to say. Same time, there arises no need for
factions to make any parting shots. That can make things
go worse. Immediately to the point! Here, a pertinent
question arises as to who should call the shots? Actually
it is the people of the valley or region who have the
utmost right to decide what their future should be like.
Let the people have their say. We have to acknowledge
their emotions. Facts, history, truces, agreements,
memorandums, plebiscites alone - however rational - cannot
resolve much conflict because how people perceive those
facts is colored by their emotions. It's no good denying
those emotions, so an effort has to be made to see the
situation the way the other person does and to acknowledge
their emotions before endeavoring to move beyond them.
Only then the conducive environ may be available for the
factions to come together and say a dialogue.
Most of the world conflicts as of now seem intractable
only because there are those elements, overt and covert,
which cash on such a situation hugely. These elements
political, non political can never afford to resolve or
let it so, the reason; they would be orphaned. But this
should not deter the honest and concerned people to delay
steadfastness in coming to a conclusion. If not done, the
“Kashmir conflict” would be rendered euphemistic to be
talked about and forever like Palestine, Chechnya, Bosnia,
Iraq do.
Remember it is not about substance but perception. People
seem to define themselves in some other dialect than the
referees in this conflict do. People are in every aspect
whether politically, socially, economically and even
geographically finding it hard to identify themselves with
any of the combatants. So the case is clear and applies to
our valley: the valley I call “vale of chill and fear”.
Let us hope that it will not surface to an imperfect
process and an imperfect peace, because if it is so then
it is better there is no peace no process and at all.”
Let us pray for Peace, Peace and Peace.
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