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The peace process between India and Pakistan took off with Vajpai´s offer of CBMs in October 2003 and initially it showed a great promise. However, by spring 2006 signs of a deadlock had become clearer in official negotiations between the two sides. Then back channel dialogues were started to remove those hurdles and according to some reports the two sides had reached to a non-paper resolving all conflicting issues including the longstanding Kashmir conflict. But that non-paper could never come out from the backchannel. This book sheds a powerful light on 2006 deadlock and backchannel talks and suggests the ways and means for removing the deadlock in the peace process. The original contribution of this book lies with its fresh analytical perspective on India Pakistan conflict which is a combination of conflict resolution, conflict transformation and constructivist approaches in peace studies. This book will be of immense interest for all those academics, students, policy makers, diplomats, journalists, politicians and the informed general readers who have interest in India Pakistan relations and want to see a durable peace in the South Asian region

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Saeed Ahmed Rid is lecturer at National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and Past Rotary World Peace Fellow 2004-06 at University of California Berkeley, USA and currently a Commonwealth Scholar (PhD) at Peace Studies department, University of Bradford, UK

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