Navnita Chadha Behera is reader in the department of political science, Delhi University, and the author of State, Identity and Violence: Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (2000). She has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., and has worked for the Ford Foundation on their programme for Regional Security, Peace and Cooperation in South Asia.

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The election of a new government in Indian-controlled Jammu & Kashmir in September 2002 has opened the way to an initiative by India’s prime minister to restart discussions with Pakistan over the future of the disputed territory. In the light of historic India-Pakistan tension, twelve years of murderous violence, and the complex shades of Kashmir’s politics, is there at last real hope of a resolution of this dangerous conflict?