The Crisis of Kashmir: Evaluation of Scenarios to Solve the Crisis

This article, tries to answer to this question that which possible scenarios can solve the crisis of Kashmir and what is their impact on involved players in this crisis?The importance of this question is due to the Kashmir’s durable crisis and up until now, there have raised different scenarios to solve it, but all of them were inconclusive, because of involved players’ disagreement on those scenarios.In this study that is based on analysis – description method, seven possible scenarios are presented to solve Kashmir’s crisis: 1- maintaining current situation 2- joining Kashmir to Pakistan 3- joining Kashmir to India 4- independent Kashmir 5- a smaller independent Kashmir 6- independent Kashmir valley 7- Chenab formula. As mentioned above, each one of these scenarios has different consequences for involved players of Kashmir’s crisis. Offenses raised from these consequences are the main barriers to implement these scenarios.