<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Eric Sibert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:courrier@eric.sibert.fr" target="_blank">courrier@eric.sibert.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I think a good test case for testing if this can handle ongoing and complex<br>
conflicts would be Kashmir, as it's currently five-ways disputed between<br>
Pakistan, India, China, a Kashmir separatist/freedom/independence movement,<br>
and recently displaced-from-Afghanistan irregular Islamic fundamentalist<br>
forces.<br>
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I would be cautious about not stabilized conflicts and therefore exclude the last group and just focus on the first four claimers. In the same idea, I would not try to describe the situation in East Ukraine.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>OK, for KISS purposes, might limit it to the first three, as the latter two aren't formally recognized; the fourth group claims the Northern Areas in Pakistan and Kashmir in India; and the first four find a mutual enemy in the remaining group (which unilaterally claims the entire planet as it's rightful territory and as such is amorphous bordering on existential and not rationally geographically defined).</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
First question : can you draw current de facto borders? The northern part of India/Pakistan border?<br>
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Second question : can you draw areas with uniform claims and de facto situation inside?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I guess I misunderstand the proposal; I was thinking the most extreme claim for each of the three would be drawn as being "within" the claimant, with the outermost boundaries of the conflict region making up a multipolygon. Basically a geographic Venn diagram.</div></div></div></div>