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The Peace Process in Nepal: Is it failing?
November 6, 2009 , 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Speaker: Ian Martin, Former United Nations Envoy in Nepal
Discussants: Professor Andrew Arato, The New School; Deepak Thapa, Professor of Social Science, Baha, Nepal; Kul C. Gautam, former Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF.
Nepal’s peace process has been hailed as an unusual success story, achieved by Nepali actors and not by the international community. But with the deadline for an agreement on a new constitution fast approaching, and the Maoist army still in cantonments, divisions among political parties threaten its successful completion. Is the peace process failing?