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- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- I work with the Student Peace Alliance, the national youth movement to establish a US Department of Peace. I am from Vermont and attend Brandeis University ('09).
- What is your current country of residence?
- USA
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Student Peace Alliance
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.studentpeacealliance.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.transcend.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise?
- Youth, Organizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas?
- Advocacy
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- -The role of Ministries and Departments of Peace in conflict prevention, resolution, and reconciliation
-Sudanese conflict
-Democratic Theory
-Peace philosophy / Morality + War
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your publications
- Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Online Roundtable Discussion: http://www.thebulletin.org/roundtable/antinuclear-weapon-movement/
Events
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3rd International Youth Media Summit
August 20, 2008 at 9am to August 27, 2008 at 9pm – Belgrade -
2008 Summer Professional Development Workshop
August 22, 2008 at 9am to August 27, 2008 at 5pm – Claremont Graduate University, CA -
Transitions Online announces the launch of Reporting EU Integration
August 25, 2008 at 9pm – Bosnia,-Herzegovina, Serbia, Moldova -
Systemic Peacebuilding - Executive Leadership Programme
August 26, 2008 at 9am to August 28, 2008 at 6pm – London
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Thanks for the message and showing interest about Nepal.
The Ministry of Peace & Reconstruction is formed very recently following the peace accord with the Maoist rebels. The histry of this ministry is traced back to the different initiations created the government for managing the peace process in Nepal. Initially, the government formed a task force to facilitate the peace negotiation between the government and Maoist in order to provide technical, physical and other necessary assistance to the peace building process. The task force recommended constituting a Peace Coordination and Management Center for institutionalizing the process. On the base of this recommendation, the government established the Peace Negotiation Coordination Secretariat under the office of Prime Minister in June 2003.
Later, a High Level Peace Committee under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister was formed in August 2004, and the Secretariat of the High Level Peace Committee, under the leadership of the Chief Secretary of the Government of Nepal, was established in September 2004. Immediately after the second popular movement of Nepal, in March 2005, the government dissolved the High Level Peace Committee. But the Secretariat remained function at with a new name "The Peace Secretariat "since October 2005.
As per the decision of April 1 2007 of the Government of Nepal the existing Peace secretariat has been dissolved and the Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction has been established with the mandate to accomplish all the functions assigned to the Peace Secretariat and other additional functions relating to reconstruction of physical infrastructure damaged during the conflict, relief and rehabilitation of the conflict victims, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, High Level Monitoring Committee and Management of the Maoist combatants cantonments.
The Ministry has envisioned formation of a peaceful, prosperous and new Nepal by ensuring social justice, equity and harmony among all sections of the society.
At present the Ministry is working hard for sustaining peace in the country.
If you need any further information, pls write me.
Kesab
Nice to hear from you. It is a topic I have been thinking about exploring for a while. Right now I am just writing a very short framing paper for a conference this month. I did find out from posting on the site that there is a book coming out on this topic in May (see the discussion on this site). Depending what is in the book and my other research work I may pursue this further. Would be more than happy to chat.
Best
CRaig
That is great you will be doing work in Nepal this summer.
Thank-you for including me on your list. It looks like we have some similar interests and it is great to see that you have been involved with movement to establish a US Department of Peace.
Warmly,
Eileen
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