LAW & CONFLICT IN KASHMIR

MONDAY 31 OCT

Workshop at SOAS

Organisers: Dr. Martin Lau Dr. Mara Malagodi Centres & Programmes Office (SOAS)

10:30am

The School of Law and the Centre for South
Asian Studies at SOAS are pleased to announce
the organisation of a one-day interdisciplinary
workshop on Monday 31 October 2011 on
the issues of Law and Conflict in Kashmir in
collaboration with the London Himalayan
Film Festival 2011 and the UK Political Studies
Association (PSA) Politics of South Asia Specialist
Group.
Papers will address the relationship between
political violence, fundamental rights and
‘legal’ counter-insurgency measures in Indian-
administered Kashmir, Pakistani-administered
Kashmir (AJK) and Akshai Chin. We are interested
in exploring the role of law in constraining,
regulating, containing and/or aggravating violent
conflict in Kashmir.
of ‘legality’ in the deployment of state violence
by exploring the added dimension of a shared
lack of any substantive democracy and a refusal
to allow for any form of self-determination.
Organisers: Dr. Martin Lau, Dr. Mara Malagodi
and Centres & Programmes Office (SOAS)
The following themes are particularly relevant to
the workshop:
• Constitutionalism and political violence
• Emergency and anti-terrorism laws
• International human rights and
    humanitarian law in armed conflict
• Judicial responses to political violence
• Theoretical and methodological
    approaches to law and conflict
• Law and conflict in a comparative South
    Asian perspective
• International law perspectives on border
    demarcation and sovereignty
The workshop will make a unique contribution
to our understanding of the use of narratives
and methods of subjugation centred on notions