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October 01 1997

Help or Hindrance: Third Parties in the Indo‐Pakistani Conflict

Tinaz Pavri

Tinaz Pavri

Tinaz Pavri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Spelman College, Box 366, 350 Spelman Lane, SW, Atlanta, GA 30314.

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Tinaz Pavri

Tinaz Pavri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Spelman College, Box 366, 350 Spelman Lane, SW, Atlanta, GA 30314.

First Publication: July 02 2007

Online ISSN: 1571-9979

Print ISSN: 0748-4526

© 1997 Plenum Publishing Corportion

1997

Plenum Publishing Corportion

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For a full description of the license, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.

Negotiation Journal (1997) 13 (4): 369–388.

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1571-9979.1997.tb00140.x

Abstract

In cases of ethno‐nationalist and other kinds of protracted conflict, third party intervention is crucial for settlement to occur, since conflicting actors are too mired in the histories of their grievances to move towards settlement themselves. This article examines five instances of hostility between India and Pakistan over the last five decades; two of these conflicts ended in settlement and the other three in war. The evidence presented in these instances suggests ways in which third party characteristics, strategies, and timing of intervention may influence final outcomes.

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