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Rehabilitation of disqualified combatants in Nepal
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Yadab Prasad Bastola,Nepal
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- What motivated you to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- Nepal, which has emerged from a decade-long civil war that claimed an estimated 13,000 lives before the Government and Maoist rebels signed a peace accord in 2006, will convene the Constituent Assembly 2008.Now Nepal has processing for reconciliation after internal Armed Conflict. These days Nepal has need more support from national and International Community for support to the ongoing peace process.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Mr.Yadab Prasad Bastola has 6 years of intensive working experience as a Human rights Activates, Peace maker and Development practitioner involved at grassroots level with couple of UN organization and several civil society organizations in Nepal. He think his real strength lies in the vast compendium of professional knowledge gained through engagement with Couple of UN agency and a variety of national and international NGO’s.He undertook varying assignment, encompassing a range of issues like Human rights Protection; Assist to peace process of Nepal and conflict transformation through community sensitization in Nepal. he has especially experience on Internal Displaced People (IDPs) Issue in Nepal.
Now he is currently working with UNESCO country Office Kathmandu , Nepal Before he was with UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) with Durable solution Programme.More then 110 Thousand Bhutanese Refugee are staying in Eastern Nepaland he was involving with UNHCR for third country settlement for Bhutanese refugee from Nepal. As well as he has been worked with UN Mission in Nepal(UNMIN) as an assistant of International Arms Monitor .Then Before he was Involve in several civil society and human rights organization in Proletariat level. When he was in Human right organization he was succeed to protect the human right of Community people in mid western Nepal in the period of Nepali armed Conflict. He has been coordination with various Peace networks & training of peace activists, women and Dalit (lower cast) community. Same as he is a member of National Peace Network and have coordinated the 1st Western Nepal Peace Conferences for Peace and Democracy in Nepalgunj (Nepal) to initiate a dialogue process and strengthen people to people contact for peace movement in Western Nepal. He has also a lot of professional training on Human rights and peace building from several organizations.
He has finished his Bachelor degree in Political science; Sociology . For the most part his true interest to work in IDPs rehabilitation and reconciliation after conflict (Post Conflict), peace building and conflict management
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you have direct and significant expertise
- Nepal
- What is your current country of residence?
- Nepal
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- UNESCO office in Kathmandu
- How many years professional experience do you have?
- 6-10
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.unesco.org/en/kathmandu
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Development, Humanitarian Relief, Organizational Development, Peacebuilding, Youth
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Advocacy, Program Administration, Program Design, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Situation study of Internal Displaced People(IDP)By Nepali Armed Conflict in Midwestern Nepal.
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications
- Human rights situation In Midwestern Nepal.
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Posted on July 27, 2009 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
Rehabilitation of disqualified combatants in Nepal
After the Maoists ended their 'People's War' and the UN was invited to assist in the peace process of Nepal, the PLA was barracked in 7 main cantonments and others some of the sub camps under the world body's supervision, the headcount of the PLA and their weapons started. The UN verification weeded out the recruits in the nearly 30,000-strong PLA troops assembled in the barracks, leaving only about 19,000 fighters who could qualify to join the state army. Though the verif… Continue
Posted on July 27, 2009 at 3:15am —
South Asian journalists commemorate World Press Freedom Day 2009 during a two day regional conference in Kathmandu entitled “Media and Dialogue”
UNESCO, jointly with OHCHR and the Federation of Nepali Journalists, convened a regional conference in Kathmandu on 3 and 4 May to observe World Press Freedom Day. Participants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan… Continue
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A Brief History about Nepal
Everything about Nepal is a contradiction. It’s a tiny landlocked country of astounding topographical diversity. From the tallest mountains in the world, Nepal plummets to subtropical tiger jungles stretching at sea level along its southern border—all within a distance of 92 miles. It’s caught between the two giant webs of Asia: China and India. Although the United Nations and the international community recognize its independence, Nepal cannot reach the outside wo… Continue
Posted on February 20, 2008 at 10:04pm — 1 Comment
Current Political Situation in Nepal
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Introduction
The mass movement of April 2006 in Nepal sought to restore parliament for the democratic process to continue and to initiate a peace process for the end of a ten-year long armed conflict. This required the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to join democratic competition which in turn necessitated the devising of a constitution to manage root causes of conflicts af… Continue
Posted on February 20, 2008 at 9:59pm — 2 Comments
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Many thanks for your message. I am extremely sorry writing to you so late because of lack of internet connectivity. It is nice meeting you. With best regards
Ashaq
Thanks for leaving me a message....I am currently reseaching the work of the UN in Nepal - do you have any personal insight I can add. Any thoughts in brief I can quote?
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Caroline
Good luck.
So my suggestions can be applied in Nepal may be with some modifications.
Awaiting your comments.
One of the main causes of the unrest in the country has been recently been told in public that "the country belongs to the Sinhalese" and it has not been refuted by anyone in authority. This thinking is one of the basic causes. Please think it over. It was the original thinking of the first Prime Minister D.S.Senanayake in 1948 and he started putting it into practice without telling it openly. First and foremost he started to weaken the Tamils politically by introducing the citizenship act and the colonization schemes. It was followed by the language policy of S.W.R.D.Bandaranayake in 1956 and this was further followed by his widow, the first woman Prime Minister of the world with the introduction of "standardization" in education policy, nationalizing trade and estates during her period 1970 to 1977.
I do not want to go further because these have been said and written for far too long a period. It is better to move towards a solution rather than continue to express or analyze the problem. We will have to aim for a change of heart not just a change of mind. Dialogues go beyond sharing and understanding to transforming participants. While the process begins with the individual, it eventually involves groups and institutions. Ultimately, dialogues can effect how policies are made.
With this end in view, I have prepared a set of suggestions that would lead to peace in the country is humbly submitted for your valuable comments:
In Sri Lanka, the trouble started due to discrimination and injustice and continues due to bribery and corruption. These may be the reasons for troubles in other countries too.
Current wars have to be ended and new wars have to be prevented. To achieve this goal the present system of Democratic Governance has to be changed to one that is really democratic in its true sense.
In the present democratic system it is only the powerful - speech, money and thuggery - can join the ruling class to suppress or convert others all others as their subjects and is a fertile ground for "corruption" in various forms to thrive.
In my opinion "Corruption" includes any kind of waste, neglect and every form of malpractice, dishonesty, abuse, misuse, unreasonable exercise of power, failure or refusal to exercise power, anything and everything left undone which results in the right of the people being denied or impaired.
Without a "just society" in existence much talked about "terrorism" cannot be eradicated. For the creation of a "just society" there should be "good governance" in the country. For the creation of "good governance" in the country "corruption" in ALL its forms must be eradicated. And to eradicate "corruption" the present democratic system of governance, where full power to make final decisions ultimately rests in the hands of one person, must be changed.
So the only way to salvage a country is to change the present system of governance to one that is truly democratic where the final decision-making power will NOT be in the hands of ONE person BUT shared by as many people as possible and thus restricting any individual hasty decisions that might lead to trouble everywhere.
To make a country truly democratic, the powers of the Parliament (the decision making supreme body of a country) should be split and separated and each of the separated powers must be handled by different groups of persons selected and elected by the people for the purpose of administering EACH SET OF POWERS or duties as the case may be so that no single group has the full power. All the groups together will make the whole. The country is not divided but the powers of parliament are divided/separated.
Different groups have to be elected for such purposes as administration, fiscal management, planning, implementing, policy and law making, auditing and for any other function that may be deemed necessary.
The group that is entrusted with the power to make laws and regulations shall not be given the duty/power of implementing/administering the laws and regulations.
Particular care should be taken to see that all powers are NOT CONCENTRATED in one place and that they do not overlap and there must not be a secret budget to be handled by a single person.
All transactions should be transparent including Diplomacy which has to be diplomatically transparent.
One set of powers dealing with the development of the country should be given to the set of representatives at the village level. The people of each and every village must be empowered to determine their way of life (lifestyle). The life-style of a village, its lands and resources shall not be disturbed by external forces.
All plans of development of a village that remotely/indirectly affects the village must have the concurrence of the people of that village concerned.
It has to be ensured that people are treated equitably regardless of their gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origins, age, disability, socio-economic background, religious or political beliefs and affiliations, marital status, family responsibilities, sexual orientation or other inappropriate distinction;
The decision-making powers with regard to each and every set of powers must be spread through-out the country.
With such system in practice discrimination, injustice, bribery and corruption, the four pillars of an Evil society might become history.
When the above four pillars of Evil are eradicated, the people would be living under a system that would guarantee sustainable peace, prosperity and a pleasant living to everyone in any country.
Comments on the above views are solicited from everyone with a view to prevent future wars and end current wars.
Cheers.
DD
East Congo — Need for Reconciliation Bridge-Builders
Rene Wadlow
On bridges are stated the limits in tons
of the loads they can bear.
But I’ve never yet found one that can bear more
than we do.
Although we are not made of roman freestone,
nor of steel, nor of concrete.
From “Bridges” – Ondra Lysohorsky
Translated from the Lachian by Davis Gill.
Violence is growing in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, basically the administrative provinces of North and South Kivu. The violence could spread to the rest of the country as Angolan troops may come to the aid of the Central Government as they have in the past while Rwandan and Ugandan troops are said to be helping the opposing militia led by Laurent Nkunda. While Nkunda and his Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) say that they are only protecting the ethnic Tutsi living in Congo, Nkunda could emerge as a national opposition figure to President Joseph Kabila, who has little progress to show from his years in power.
There is high-level recognition that violence in Congo could spread, having a destabilizing impact on the whole region. UN diplomats, led by Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, have stressed that a political solution — not a military one — is the only way to end the violence, and they are urging the presidents of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania to work together to restore stability. The instability, along with Congo’s vast mineral and timber riches have drawn in neighboring armies who have joined local insurgencies as well as local commanders of the national army to exploit the mines and to keep mine workers in near-slavery conditions.
The United Nations has some 17,000 peacemakers in Congo (MONUC), the UN’s largest peacekeeping mission, but their capacity is stretched to the limit. Recently, the General in command of the UN forces, Lieutenant General Vicent Diaz de Villegas of Spain resigned his post after seven weeks — an impossible task. Their mission is to protect civilians, some 250,000 of which have been driven from their homes since the fighting intensified in late August 2008. The camps where displaced persons have been living have been attacked both by government and rebel forces — looting, raping, and burning. UN under-secretary general for peacekeeping, Alain Le Roy, is asking for an additional 3,000 soldiers, but it is not clear which states may propose troops for a very difficult mission. While MONUC has proven effective at securing peace in the Ituri district in north-eastern Congo, it has been much less successful in the two Kivu provinces.
The eastern area of Congo is the scene of fighting at least since 1998 — in part as a result of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda in 1994. In mid-1994, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees poured into the Kivus, fleeing the advance of the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front, now become the government of Rwanda. Many of these Hutu were still armed, among them, the “genocidaire” who a couple of months before had led the killings of some 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda. They continued to kill Tutsi living in the Congo, many of whom had migrated there in the 18th century.
The people in eastern Congo have lived together for many centuries and had developed techniques of conflict resolution, especially between the two chief agricultural lifestyles: that of agriculture and cattle herding. However, the influx of a large number of Hutu, local political considerations, a desire to control the wealth of the area — rich in gold, tin and tropical timber — all these factors have overburdened the local techniques of conflict resolution and have opened the door to new, negative forces interested only in making money and gaining political power.
UN peace-keeping troops are effective when there is peace to keep. What is required today in eastern Congo is not so much more soldiers under UN command, than reconciliation bridge-builders, persons who are able to restore relations among the ethnic groups of the area. The United Nations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations need to develop bridge-building teams who can help to strengthen local efforts at conflict resolution and re-establishing community relations. In the Kivus, many of the problems arise from land tenure issues. With the large number of people displaced and villages destroyed, it may be possible to review completely land tenure and land use issues.
World citizens were among those in the early 1950s who stressed the need to create UN peace-keeping forces with soldiers especially trained for such a task. Today, a new type of world civil servant is needed — those who in areas of tension and conflict can undertake the slow but important task of restoring confidence among peoples in conflict, establishing contacts and looking for ways to build upon common interests.
Rene Wadlow, Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
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