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Citizen Power in Kashmir (June 2010)

Ashima Kaul of Insight on Conflict travels with activists of the Right to Information Movement in Jammu and Kashmir as they visit a village to campaign.

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Citizen Power in Kashmir

Ashima Kaul of Insight on Conflict travels with activists of the Right to Information Movement in Jammu and Kashmir as they visit a village to campaign.

How Kashmiris can Contribute to their Own Cause

Opinion piece by independent journalist Amit Srivastava on how a peaceful mass movement might create a shared Kashmiri identity and bring peace to the region.

Life in a border village

Video report from Ashima Kaul on a visit to a school in Jammu & Kashmir, where she hears the opinions of staff and pupils on the impact of the conflict

Peace in Kashmir: the work of PFP in AJ&K

Interview with Zafar Iqbal of Press for Peace (PfP) discussing peacebuilding in Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Right To Information Movement: Building Democracy, Building Peace in Kashmir

Ashima shares the story of the Right To Information Movement, who are building peace by seeking justice in Kashmir

Sufis and Yogis Rediscover Dialogical Traditions for Global Peace

Ashima Kaul reports on a conference on Sufi-Yogi dialogue, organised by the Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW) and featuring representatives from Kashmir Valley, Pakistan, India, Cambodia, Qatar USA and Nepal.

Why I work for Peace in Kashmir

Ashima Kaul, our Kashmir Local Correspondent, is herself a peacebuilder with the Athwaas organisation. In this interview, she takes about her involvement in peacebuilding.

From the editors

(July 2010): The environment and remembering to forget in Kashmir

An interesting article here on the environmental damage being done in Kashmir because of deforestation. Also worth reading is this thoughtful column from the Hindustan Times on dealing with the past.

(December 2009): Fall in Conflict Trauma in Kashmir?

The BBC has interviewed Dr Arshid Hussain, a leading psychologist in Srinagar, who has reported a massive drop in the number of suffers of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in his hospital. The doctor has attributed this to a drop in the levels of violence in the region.

If Dr Hussain is correct, this is excellent news. There does of course however remain a great number of sufferers of PTSD. To read of a group helping victims of the conflict in Kashmir, visit the page of the Yakdah Reconciliation and Development Network, who help bring victims together to discuss their problems.