The Border Dispute in Kashmir

This summer, I took classes at Harvard Extension School, a division of Harvard University devoted to adult and distance education. One of the classes was International Conflict and Cooperation, and we were tasked with writing policy memos on various subjects.

Map of the Kashmir Border Dispute by BBC.com

Below is the prompt for the first of the four memos I wrote:

Since the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, the countries…