Conflict situation and displacement in Jammu and Kashmir state
- Indian Journal of Political Science
- 85(1), Jan-Mar, 2024: p.439-444
Conflict caused millions of people to flee their homes every year. The resulting displacement crises not only create logistical and humanitarian nightmare, these crises also threaten international or national security and the risk the lives of displaced people. In every conflict situation people leave their homes to escape political violence. Conflicts induced displacement includes the violence that caused displacement. Since 1947, the scale of conflict induced displacement, leading to the increase in the number of refugees or internally displaced people. After the creation of Indo Pakistan border in 1947, increasing number of people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of war or conflict like situation in Jammu and Kashmir state. Displacement is one of the visible realities of the Kashmir conflict. The history of large scale displacement began in 1947. It is the result of the unsettled borders left behind after partition. The claims over Kashmir territory by India and Pakistan are the key sources of conflict in Jammu and Kashmir. The proper aims to explore the implication of conflict situation in J&K which has resulted large scale displacement of population from affected areas and latter on these displaced communities resettle in the Jammu region and the Jammu region witnessed as a place of refuge for all kind of displaces communities. the present paper is based on primary as well secondary sources. -Reproduced
Conflict, War, Displacement, Violence, Jammu and Kashmir state