Abstract By using an interdisciplinary approach, this article seeks to examine Pakistan–India partition and their on-going rivalry which is a permanent threat to the South Asian regional security. This article analyses the Pakistan–India conflict through a fresh psycho-cultural framework to explain both states’ endless competitive urge to outpace each other. I will describe the attributes of the indigenous ‘culture of conflict’ in both countries and use them as an ‘analogy’. This article develops a conflict theory to explain the rationale behind such an emotion-laden rivalry between the two nations. The conflict theory presented in this article (which can be termed as Sharike-Bazi [Culture of Conflict]) explains that peoples’ conflict behaviours in Pakistan and India are rooted in their earliest socialisation within primary kinship institutions. In Pakistan and India, the indigenous ‘culture of conflict’ emanates from the segmentation of the most pervasive and influential institutions, the kinship institutions. The moralities of conflict behaviour learned within these institutions are extrapolated to every other institution in the outside world. Therefore, psychologically, the indigenous ‘culture of conflict’ creates certain moral views affecting the conflict behaviour of people as well as policymakers. It provides them with cultural moralities to pursue this zero-sum interstate conflict.

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以不同的方式感知敌人：巴基斯坦-印度冲突的心理文化分析

摘要 本文采用跨学科的方法，试图研究巴基斯坦-印度的分治及其对南亚地区安全的永久威胁的持续竞争。本文通过一个全新的心理文化框架分析了巴基斯坦-印度冲突，以解释两国无休止的相互超越的竞争冲动。我将描述两国本土“冲突文化”的特征，并将其用作“类比”。本文提出了一种冲突理论来解释两国之间这种充满情感的对抗背后的基本原理。本文中提出的冲突理论（可以称为 Sharike-Bazi [冲突文化]）解释说，巴基斯坦和印度人民的冲突行为植根于他们在主要亲属制度中最早的社会化。在巴基斯坦和印度，本土的“冲突文化”源于最普遍和最有影响力的机构——亲属机构——的分裂。在这些机构中学习到的冲突行为的道德可以外推到外部世界的所有其他机构。因此，在心理上，本土的“冲突文化”创造了某些影响人们和决策者冲突行为的道德观点。它为他们提供了追求这种零和国家间冲突的文化道德。因此，在心理上，本土的“冲突文化”创造了某些影响人们和决策者冲突行为的道德观点。它为他们提供了追求这种零和国家间冲突的文化道德。因此，在心理上，本土的“冲突文化”创造了某些影响人们和决策者冲突行为的道德观点。它为他们提供了追求这种零和国家间冲突的文化道德。