KSRL 2025 — Dual Trusteeship & Enforcement Edition Global Trusteeship Accord on Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar Version 2.0 (Clean Release)

Final Zenodo Description Title KSRL 2025 — Dual Trusteeship & Enforcement EditionGlobal Trusteeship Accord on Mount Kailash and Lake ManasarovarVersion 2.0 — Final Ultimate Edition (Clean Release) Author Dr. B. MazumdarIndependent Researcher–Scholar (AI Governance, Cybersecurity, Post-Quantum Cryptography, Digital Statecraft)Founder — FAIR+D Canon (India, 2025)ORCID: 0009-0007-5615-3558 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18229906 Description This work presents a comprehensive, original, and academically rigorous governance framework entitled “KSRL 2025 — Dual Trusteeship & Enforcement Edition”, proposing a legally cautious, institutionally realistic, and non-coercive model for the protection and stewardship of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar as sites of exceptional civilizational, ecological, cultural, and intergenerational significance. The document introduces the doctrine of Dual Trusteeship, a novel conceptual architecture that distinguishes between: A global trusteeship layer, grounded in principles of public international law and multilateral legitimacy; and A civilizational custodianship layer, recognizing historical continuity of cultural and spiritual stewardship without asserting territorial sovereignty. The framework explicitly affirms principles of non-aggression, non-sovereignty, voluntary adoption, and legal defensibility, and is constructed to remain compatible with the UN Charter, environmental treaties, cultural heritage instruments, and evolving international jurisprudence. Core thematic contributions include: Protection Without Possession (non-claim custodianship doctrine) Sacred Ecological Personhood and Rights of Nature applied to transboundary geography Intergenerational governance and perpetual trust framing Institutional architectures (KDTC, Secretariat, IVC, KAT) Demilitarized sacred zone model Sustainable pilgrimage governance Climate cooperation and Himalayan ecological stewardship Modular, voluntary implementation pathways consistent with legal realism This work is presented strictly as a scholarly, legal-normative, and policy framework. It does not claim authority, sovereignty, or institutional mandate. Its purpose is to contribute to: International governance theory Environmental and cultural protection discourse Legal-normative development Academic research Long-term policy imagination The structure, tone, and methodology are designed to meet the standards of: International law scholarship UN-grade policy documents Top-tier academic monographs Think-tank and institutional research publications Keywords International LawGlobal GovernanceTrusteeshipDual TrusteeshipEnvironmental GovernanceSacred EcologyRights of NatureCultural Heritage ProtectionMount KailashLake ManasarovarIntergenerational JusticeCivilizational StudiesDemilitarizationClimate GovernancePolicy FrameworkLegal TheoryGlobal CommonsNormative Architecture License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)