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Nepal
2008: Reports on the Conflict
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Humanitarian
agenda 2015: Nepal country study
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The
ruling Seven Party Alliance (SPA) reached a new agreement on 25 June over
contentious political issues that were delaying the Constituent Assembly
(CA) from drafting a new constitution and forming a new government. The
parties agreed to a 21-Point bill, which among other crucial issues included
the Fifth Amendment of the interim constitution to elect president, vice-president
and Prime Minister through a simple majority.
This
study is the twelfth and final country case study of the "Humanitarian
Agenda 2015: Principles, Power and perceptions" (HA2015) research project.
As with the other case studies it attempts to capture the "view from below":
it analyzes local perceptions of the four issues of universality, terrorism
and counterterrorism, coherence and security of staff in relation to the
activities of the humanitarian enterprise in Nepal. At the same time, because
of the idiosyncratic nature of the international response to the Nepali
crisis, some additional issues are explored. These relate to the role of
development agencies in the response to the crisis and more generally to
the relationship between development policies and conflict. Another is
the impact of conflict on social transformation, particularly in matters
relating to discrimination. These two issues are introduced here but will
be treated more fully in follow-up research by the Feinstein International
Center.
In
Nepal, the study's four themes, and the perceptions of local communities
related to them, come together in different ways than the other case studies.
This is due mainly to two unique features of the Nepal crisis and the role
of the international community in addressing it. The crisis and its solution
were fundamentally endogenous processes with limited outside influence
or intervention and the aid community was, and is, dominated by development
actors and narratives. In Nepal, the humanitarian dimension, which was
at the forefront of our eleven other cases studies, is secondary to an
already well-established development enterprise. That said, the findings
of the Nepal study help illuminate, and are in turn illuminated by, the
other contexts examined earlier.
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| Source: Tufts Alan Shawn Feinstein International Center FIC August 2008 |
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