Chapter VI of the UN Charter

India and Pakistan fought a war in 1965, and within a year their Prime Minister and President were signing a settlement in Tashkent, brokered by a Soviet Premier who wanted nothing for himself but a signature from both sides. That is mediation. Compare it with the Rann of Kutch dispute the same decade, where the two countries agreed in advance to let a tribunal of arbitrators decide, and whatever the tribunal said would bind them, win or lose. That is arbitration. Six methods sit inside Chapter VI of the UN Charter, and the exam wants you to tell them apart under pressure, not just recite their names.

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Chapter VI of the UN Charter, built around Article 33, gives states six recognised peaceful methods of settling disputes, and the entire exam turns on knowing exactly how much control the parties keep in each one.

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