THE BORDER DISPUTE BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN AFTER INDEPENDENCE OF BOTH COUNTRIES (IN THE CASE STUDY OF KASHMIR 1947 – 2014)

*105 Background: The Kashmir conflict is actually begun after the British Colony ended up in 1947. They decided India and Pakistan to be an independence states based on The Principle of Partition which clearly stated that the region which was basically inhabited by predominantly Hindu joining India. While the region which was inhibited by predominantly Muslim joined Pakistan. However, the principle of Partition could not work well when Kashmir had different desires between the people and ruler. Therefore, it makes Kashmir difficult to choose their destiny whether join India and Pakistan in the future and makes India and Pakistan fight in getting Kashmir because they consider that Kashmir is beneficial place for them. This condition makes the bilateral relation of the two countries become worse and makes the international societies worried.
Goals: The goals of this undergraduate thesis are to examine the history of politics, religion, territory, interests and relations between India and Pakistan. The others are to know the roads of Kashmir conflict and discover the efforts which have been undertaken by both parties and international parties such as United Nations and SAARC in resolving this conflict starting from 1947 until 2014. Therefore, the writer believes that this topic is important to discover the reasons causing the conflict difficult to be resolved.
Methodology: The ways in collecting data and sources for completing this thesis is based on library research in which the data and resources were collected from books, journals, e-books, sample thesis, internet sources, and others referring to Kashmir conflict studies.
Result: Based on the research, Kashmir conflict is not successful in fulfilling the requirement of this termination stage on Conflict Resolution Theory because both countries which are involved in Kashmir conflict has not directly take a decision to stop the conflict. They preferred to choose their own power to gain control in Kashmir. In other hand, India and Pakistan also do not fully support the decision which was made by the third parties (UNCIP and SAARC) to resolve the conflict and makes the position of Kashmir become unclear whether it would become a part of India or Pakistan until 2014.
Keywords : Border Dispute, Kashmir, India, Pakistan
References : 4 Books, 3 E-books, 5 Journals, 3 Reports, 10 Websites
Page : 66 Pages