Making Sense of the Stalemate in India Pakistan Peace Process

The peace process between India and Pakistan has been at a standstill since 2008, after the Mumbai attacks. Despite several attempts, the two countries are unable to revive the peace process. The stalemate further deepened by the Modi government’s decision to revoke Articles 370 and 35-A of the Indian Constitution in 2019. In this talk, the author will trace the developments since 2008 and analyze the nature and scope of the stalemate. He will explain how the current stalemate is different from the past stalemates and discuss possible way forwards for the two countries. Join us for a thought-provoking discussion.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Saeed Ahmed Rid is an Assistant Professor at National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad. He has a PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford and has done postdoctoral research as a Commonwealth Academic Scholar at the University of Oxford. He has received prestigious awards such as the Commonwealth Scholarship award and Rotary World Peace Fellowship. Dr. Rid has also collaborated on research with Indian scholar Sasmita Tripathy for their monograph, “Democracy as a conflict resolution model for terrorism: A case study of India and Pakistan” that won him the Mehbub-ul-Haq Research Award. Recently, he completed a postgraduate diploma in Federalism, Decentralization, and Conflict Resolution from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.