Building peace through tourism: The analysis of an ongoing Siachen Glacier dispute between India and Pakistan
| Author | Mehraj Ud Din Wani,Zubair Ahmad Dada,Shamim Ahmad Shah |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20578911221118730 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | South Asian Politics |
Building peace through
tourism: The analysis of an
ongoing Siachen Glacier dispute
between India and Pakistan
Mehraj Ud Din Wani
Department of Geography and Disaster Management,
University of Kashmir, India
Zubair Ahmad Dada
Tourism Management, University of Kashmir, India
Shamim Ahmad Shah
Department of Geography and Disaster Management, University
of Kashmir, India
Abstract
The current article aims to analyse the effectiveness of the conversionof the Siachen Glacier into a peace
park on India–Pakistan relations. It further investigates how the peace park can build mutual understand-
ing leading to cooperation and peace between the two countries. The article presents the conceptual
framework for adequate supervision of the Siachen Glacier jointly by India and Pakistan to mitigate
the existing tensions and conflicts through tourism within the context of the tourism–peace nexus
and peace park concept. The Siachen Peace Park proposition offers an amazing way out for the policy-
makers to diffuse tensions between the military establishments of India and Pakistan. Both the nations
have been losing the lives of their soldiers among the snow-capped peaks not due to any gunfight but
mainly because of climatic extremities and frostbite. The suggestion of the Siachen Peace Park has
been explicated with the help of a four-stage peace park conversion model conceived by the authors,
which gives a conceptual understanding of the outcomes of this Peace Park for both countries.
Keywords
conflict, India, peace, peace park, Siachen Glacier
Corresponding author:
Mehraj Din Wani, Department of Geography and Disaster Management, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, 190006, India.
Email: wanimeh786@gmail.com
South Asian Politics
Asian Journal of Comparative Politics
2022, Vol. 7(4) 836–848
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