Road to Reconciliation: Confidence Building Measures

Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), among others, is an apparatus that entail actions that reflect goodwill between conflicting parties, in hopes of an optimistic outcome between states who have professed some form of adversarial intent.

In his commentary, BIPSS Research Intern Subham Barua provides an insight into the role of CBMs in conflict situations and explores what exact mechanisms were employed that led to lasting peace among the states.