Resolution Of Conflicts Through Negotiated Settlement And CBM A Case Study Of Indo China Border Dispute

Abstract

After its independence, India and China seemed to understand the significance of CBMs that was apparent from the Panchsheel Agreement concluded in 1954. Some researchers date nevertheless the origins of CBMs in the Sino-Indian period after the Cold War. India and China have been discussing many problems which have divided them since the 1950s to solve. Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) are an essential element in the process of conflict resolution. CBMs are aimed at increasing military openness, limiting the use of military equipment and military action and expressing a friendly attitude toward the other side, in order to increase mutual confidentiality, to reduce the incomprehension and mistake of military operations, which pose the risk of warfare. This study thus seeks to construct and then examine the positive and negative CBMs between India and China. It then tries to identify and critically evaluate the elements that serve as obstacles to conflict resolution. The main goal of this study is to evaluate and determine how successful the function of CBMs is in influencing dispute settlement between India and China.