Citizenship En Masse: Playing With Demographic Fire
Minister Hridesh Tripathy of the Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi) was in an understandably exultant mood the other day. Then, speaking at a public forum, he confidently predicted that the House of…
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Granting citizenship en masse?
Harka Gurung, a senior scholar, once emphasized political boundary and citizenship as two bases of national identity. On both counts, he said, the situation of Nepal seemed precarious. This preca…
Democracy and the United Nations
Democracy and the United Nations - PDF file (A Publication of United Nations) Democracy is one of the universal and indivisible core values and principles of the United Nations. It is based on th…
United Nations, sidelined
Turning conflict into peace is challenging even if those attempting to do it are highly trained and well-equipped. Several of the most violent and tragic episodes of the 1990s occurred after the …
The Supreme Question
There cannot be any legal concept as the 'supremacy' or 'sovereignty' of the House of Representatives in Nepal, argues BIPIN ADHIKARI, if anything is supreme in a system of the rule of law that t…
Critical Path analysis in Legal Reform Projects
Critical Path Analysis (CPA) is a project management tool that sets out all the individual activities that make up a larger project; shows the order in which activities have to be undertaken; sho…
Eagle-i Internet Portal for Law Project
Eagle-i Internet Portal for Law Project Eagle-i (Electronic Access to Global Legal Information) is a free to use dedicated portal to high quality legal information sources on the Web - being deve…
Parliament 2020: Visioning the Future Parliament
The focus of Parliament 2020: Visioning the Future Parliament is on how UK parliaments can improve processes, enhance communication and better engage with citizens. The participants in the resear…
Connecting Citizens to Parliament
The UK report "Connecting Citizens to Parliament" demonstrates that half the public (52%) are not really interested in Parliament and do not want to be involved in what it does.The research explo…
Can the Constitution Day remind us of broken promises
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1990, has now completed its 15th year. The last three years of its life have been very dreadful. It is being victimised by its own associates and well-wi…
Library of PEA resources
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