The Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network (KSCAN), is an interdisciplinary group of scholars from various countries and regions engaged in research on the region of Kashmir. Each of us has written about Kashmiri history, society, culture, and politics, and their relation to the protracted conflict; and we are particularly concerned about the present conditions of violence. Our research on the Kashmir conflict addresses its history, its consequences for the region and beyond, and its possible resolution. It has implications for an internationally mediated political solution and is of relevance to policy makers.
An eleven member team comprising advocates, trade union and human activists and a psychiatrist visited Kashmir from Sept 28-Oct. 4, 2019. The broad aim of the team was to understand the situation persisting in the two months since the Abrogation of Article 370, and, to assess the quality of access to justice in these compelling …
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Kashmir crisis update, October 30, 2019 October 30, marks eighty five days of the siege and communications clampdown in Kashmir. In another day, the state of Jammu and Kashmir will be officially bifurcated and turned into a Union territory of India. In the Valley, public transportation remains suspended, internet blocked, schools, colleges and universities nonfunctional, …
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Kashmir Scholars write to the visiting EP members urging them to speak to Kashmiri and Indian civil society members for an impartial assessment of the ongoing siege of Kashmir
In accordance with reports from other international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights as well as the United Nations’ Office of the Human Rights Commissioner’s 2018 Kashmir-specific report, APDP calls for the following recommendations regarding ongoing use of pellet guns in Kashmir: Ban the use of pellet-firing shotguns in Jammu …
KSCAN scholars, subject experts in Kashmir's social and political history, law, and human rights, issue a document that answers commonly asked questions about the history of Kashmir, as well as changes following the deactivation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution. You can access the document here
Day 70 of Kashmir under siege : October 14, 2019 The Kashmir siege completes day seventy, life in Kashmir remains disrupted. To date, we now have five on the ground fact finding reports from members of the Indian civil society Report 1, Report 2, Report 3, Report 4, Report 5 All reports have been uniformly disturbing, …
Kashmir Scholars release a fact sheet on the Kashmir dispute and the current siege
