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Nepal Trip Reports

IPJ Nepal Project

 

 

May 2008 – Kathmandu and Western Development Region, Nepal

IPJ team Dee Aker, Interim Executive Director, and Laura Taylor, Senior Program Officer, returned to Nepal for "Uniting for a Democratic Peace." This report documents the voices and perspectives of rural participants, urban youth, political leaders and mid-level actors related to the security field.


April 2007 – Kathmandu, Nepal

This report describes the findings of the IPJ Nepal Project team, Dee Aker, Interim Director, and Laura Taylor, Program Officer. An assessment trip to rural districts as well as a series of workshops and private interviews with key stakeholders in Kathmandu informed this analysis. Voices and perspectives of conflict survivors and political leaders on the forefront of the democratic transition are included. This report briefly considers the background and root causes of the conflict, as well as the potential for constructive conflict resolution. The following sections review the IPJ participatory programming, and conclude with the opportunities for future IPJ involvement.

 

May 2005 – Kathmandu, Nepal
Assessment trip following the Royal takeover on February 1, 2005, by Dee Aker, IPJ Deputy Director, to meet with a wide range of stakeholders such as government, political parties, student unions, national nongovernmental organizations, women, media, security forces, jurists, business, and the international community. 



Read more about the IPJ’s connections to Nepal on our Nepal activities page.


For further information on the IPJ Nepal Project contact: Dee Aker, Ph.D., IPJ Deputy Director daker@sandiego.edu.