Haggling over the price of peace
It is not clear who said it, but the claim that every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper, has a heavy dose of truth. Whether this claim applies to Prachanda, the most successful among the…
Under the shadow of arms
The issue of management of small arms, which were used to ruthlessly slaughtering more than 13,000 Nepalis, is unfortunately still the most intractable part of the story of a revolution that has already gone sour. There are indigestible misrepresentation by…
Peace in the animal farm
For a long time the people of Nepal have known deep down that the future of this country will be different from the past. The million dollor question is – “is the future that they are talking about going to…
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 Representatives (HoR) would unanimously approve the draft bill on…
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 precariousness owes to several factors. The porous international border that this…
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 the freely expressed will of people and…
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 negotiation of peace agreements. This is the reason…
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 this country has, it is the…
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; shows which activities can only taken place once…
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 developed by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies as…