Tibet - China Conflict Resolution Action Plan

Tibet has long believed that it is an independent state of culture, relations and resources. However, in 1951, the People’s Republic of China invaded Tibet and claimed the land as their own- an unstable addition to China that has held to modern day. Tibetan people have had their culture oppressed, their religion outlawed and tumultuous violence to those who protest the new government. The people of Tibet feel they should be one independent nation, regardless of Chineses’ imperialistic claim on their lands. Their leader, currently the 14th Dalai Lama, has been exiled from his country but travels the world to promote peace, compassion and the hope to dissolve Tibetan- Chinese conflict. Even though he is miles away from the millions of Tibetans he leads, those Tibetans hold him to be their true leader and his government to be the true government of TIbet.

Before Chinese rule, Tibet was an independent state rich with culture, language, religion and nationality. The Tibetan dynasty reached across a considerable amount of the west of China and were considered very powerful and mystic by the 7th century. Buddhism was deeply rooted into the history of Ancient Tibet and so, most of modern knowledge of Tibet’s history comes from Buddhist monks. The reason China took power of Tibet in the 1950’s is most likely because the Chinese thought that Tibet was apart of their homeland and as they were driving many foreign influences out of China at the time anyway, wished to unify the entire region as the People’s Republic of China. After the Chinese invasion of Tibet, they enforced totalitarian laws upon the Tibetans- religion was outlawed, monks and other spiritual leaders were either killed or kicked out of the country, and there were food short...

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