Getting to Yes in the India-Pakistan Conflict: Addressing Indian concerns on a possible compromise with Pakistan

Even after 65 years of their independence, India and Pakistan are locked in a deadly territorial conflict over Kashmir. Despite several mediation attempts and many rounds of bilateral negotiations, Kashmir still defies a solution. Fisher and Ury's win-win solution in Getting to Yes is applied on India-Pakistan conflict to understand the nature of conflict and see how their four suggested methods can help addressing the deadlock in the peace process between India and Pakistan. In the second part of the paper Fisher and Ury's method, "focus on interests not positions" is used to understand the Indian fears and concerns behind India's declared policy of calling Kashmir as their "integral part". It is despite the fact that the first Indian Prime Minister, Nehru had made solid pledges in UN and on other forums of holding a plebiscite in Kashmir to determine the right of self-determination of the people of Kashmir. An attempt is made to look at Indian concerns more deeply and find out the possible ways of addressing them.