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Strengthening Civil Society Peace Activism: Kashmir

Since 1998 South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) in collaboration with its partners in India and Pakistan has been working for building and sustaining a civilian dialogue forum on democracy and peace in both India and Pakistan controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The objective was to develop a channel of communication between the peoples of the divided territories of Jammu and Kashmir as well as between and among the peoples of India and Pakistan on the question of building peace and strengthening democracy.

1. Building a net-work of civil society peace activists on both sides of Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir 1999

2. Youth/Resource Centre

3. Elections in Kashmir

4. Daughters of Ladakh Kashmir and Jammu (DoLKJ)

5. Human Rights and Peace Education Programme

6. Documentation of Disappearances in J&K

7. IDRC Earthquake survey Project report