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R E S E A R C H P R O P O S A L B Y  

I D A A Y U C I N T Y A  

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The Indian and PakistaniMilitary Activities in Siachen

Glacier and the

Environmental Impacts fromthe year 1990 to 2010 

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Geographical Map of Siachen Glacier

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Introduction

Himalaya

India- Pakistan conflict

Environment

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1.2 Research Problem Identification

Militarisation of the region by India and Pakistan

 Vulnerable ecology 

Environmental impacts, such as receding glaciers

and rising temperature

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1.2.1 Scope of the Research 1990 until

2010

1.2.2 Problem Formulation How is the

military activity in Siachen Glacier between

India and Pakistan affect the environment

from the year 1990 until 2010?

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1.3 Purpose and Significance of theResearch 

1.3.1 Purpose of the Research describe the

military activities between India and Pakistan

from the protracted conflict spanning for

decades that resulted in environmental

damage in the highest battleground of the

 world

1.3.2 Significance of the Research hopes to

enable a deeper understanding regarding this

critical territorial dispute that ensued in a

 vulnerable ecology system

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1.4 Conceptual Framework 

Environmental Security 

preventing or repairing military damage to theenvironment

protecting the environment due to its inherent moral value

Nationalism

Balance of Power (BoP) controlled competition and conflict among sovereign

political actor for the scarce world resources and other values

Hard Balancing

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Environment as

inherent moral value 

Nationalism Environmental

Security 

Conflict in Siachen

Glacier 

Environmentally caused

conflict 

Balance of 

Power 

Absence of single strong actor 

Controlled

competition 

Existing power distribution

beneficial 

Hard Balancing 

Prevent military damage to

environment 

Unequal distribution of power 

Diagram of theRelationships

between theConceptualFrameworks

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1.5 Research Method and DataCollecting Technique 

1.5.1 Research Method Qualitative

1.5.2 Data Collecting Technique 

Document study 

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1.6 Thesis Structure 

• Chapter I introduce Background of the Problem;Problem Identification which covers description of theproblem, Problem Limitation, and Problem Formulation;Purpose and Significance of research; Theoretical

Framework; Research Method and Data CollectingTechnique.

• Chapter II conflict of India and Pakistan

• Chapter III military actions and behaviors

•

Chapter IV analysis of both Indian and Pakistanimilitary presence that directly contributes to theenvironmental degradation in the area.

• Chapter V final conclusion and summary of aforementioned research

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