Human Security Challenges in Borderlands A Study of Borderlands Communities in Poonch District

Abstract

The border conflict in the state of Jammu and Kashmir (before bifurcation, August newline2019) region has been going on for more than seven decades and has often been cited newlineas an enduring rivalry within International Relations (IR) scholarship. Such conflicts newlinehave been in the form of three major conventional wars and numerous war like newlinesituations. In addition to these cataclysmic events, the borderlands of Jammu and newlineKashmir (JandK), especially the Line of Control (LoC) region, has been frequently newlinewitnessing armed skirmishes, cease fire violations and extensive cross-border newlineviolence which have resulted in manifold losses, ranging from loss of life and newlinelivelihood among other everyday threats and uncertainties as experienced by the newlinepeople. The prolonged border conflict has its manifestations on the national security, newlinethereby inevitably resulting in militarization and securitization of state s border newlinespaces . This thesis aims to explain and examine the underlying human security newlinethreats and challenges which are witnessed in the everyday lived experiences of newlineborderland communities who have been living along the Line of Control (LoC) in the newlinePoonch district of JandK.