Azaadi, Freedom and Change in Kashmir

Kashmir has been in geopolitical limbo since the partition of the British Raj in 1947. A region of stunning natural beauty and diverse ethnicities and cultures, its people continue to experience violence, state oppression, and terrorism. This book provides an introduction to Kashmir and its people and showcases the realities of everyday lives from personal accounts. It explores the reasons for the tensions with Kashmir itself, as well as the wider implications of those tensions. The international relations between India, Pakistan, and China, are crucial to understanding the conflict in Kashmir, as are the relationships between those nations and the wider world. The changing nature of global politics continues to affect Kashmir, while its people suffer. This book highlights the many reasons why peace in the region needs to be a priority for global leaders, and the serious implications for world peace if that does not happen. In taking inspiration from the practice of transitional justice in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor) and South Africa, this book presents ways in which this culturally rich and ethnically diverse region might again find a way to peace and azaadi.

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Former Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia

"In this book, the author has been simultaneously critical and compassionate in her analysis; Schuurmans has written the book independently, with impartiality and integrity, taking into account the grievances of all the different parties."

Dr José Ramos-Horta

President of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

"I highly recommend this book which provides a fresh look at this decades-long conflict that has been too-long neglected, and in which innocent civilians are still paying the price."

Read the Book

Azaadi, Freedom and Change in Kashmir

Kashmir has been in geopolitical limbo since the partition of the British Raj in 1947. A region of stunning natural beauty and diverse ethnicities and cultures, its people continue to experience violence, state oppression, and terrorism. This book provides an introduction to Kashmir and its people and showcases the realities of everyday lives from personal accounts. It explores the reasons for the tensions with Kashmir itself, as well as the wider implications of those tensions. The international relations between India, Pakistan, and China, are crucial to understanding the conflict in Kashmir, as are the relationships between those nations and the wider world. The changing nature of global politics continues to affect Kashmir, while its people suffer. This book highlights the many reasons why peace in the region needs to be a priority for global leaders, and the serious implications for world peace if that does not happen. In taking inspiration from the practice of transitional justice in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor) and South Africa, this book presents ways in which this culturally rich and ethnically diverse region might again find a way to peace and azaadi.

View / Buy Book

Try Sutrisno

Former Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia

"In this book, the author has been simultaneously critical and compassionate in her analysis; Schuurmans has written the book independently, with impartiality and integrity, taking into account the grievances of all the different parties."

Dr José Ramos-Horta

President of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

"I highly recommend this book which provides a fresh look at this decades-long conflict that has been too-long neglected, and in which innocent civilians are still paying the price."

Author

Laura Schuurmans

Laura Schuurmans is an independent writer specializing in the Kashmir conflict. For more than a decade she has been actively working on international security issues in the wider Asian region and she has published a number of articles, research papers and book chapters. Her prime focus has always been the Kashmir conflict. From 2011-2013 she followed a postgraduate programme at the prestigious School of International Studies at Peking University, China. Based in Jakarta where she has lived for more than two decades, she has actively witnessed the development of political Islam in one of the world’s most populated Muslim nations which has provided her with a more in-depth understanding of the interplay between issues of international security and religion.

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Azaadi, Freedom and Change in Kashmir | Laura Schuurmans

After decades of border conflict and military oppression, this book explores the possibility that the people of Kashmir,

and the governments of China, Pakistan, and India, might come together and take inspiration from East Timor and South Africa

...and to bring lasting peace and a new future of prosperity to this culturally rich and naturally diverse region.

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