Asaf Ali Lone is a PhD student at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. His research looks at the intersections of peacebuilding and redressal mechanisms in South Asia with a focus on missing persons in Kashmir and Punjab, India. In his research, he is trying to untangle missing state of persons especially in the contexts of conflict to understand the changing patterns of state violence to build a responsive mechanism to uphold state’s commitment to human rights and rule of law. He is currently working on a paper where he is attempting to capture different dimensions of missing persons in the context of more than three decades of armed conflict in Kashmir to understand everyday lives of living in a conflict. He is further exploring creative ways of documenting different dimensions of life in a conflict through collaborative practices of art, poetry, creative writing, visual practices and engaging with different ethnographic explorations.