Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Himalaya Program .
Nepal has been undergoing a political transition since the end of the Maoist conflict in 2006. Over 10 years later, a new constitution has been implemented and one of the three mandated elections to various levels of government has been complete. Dissension on the contours of federalization is on the wane, and the country appears to be moving ahead. The talk will discuss whether this means if the transition is coming to an end, and what the contours of the Nepali state are likely to be in the future.
Speaker Bio
Deepak Thapa is the Director of the Social Science Baha, a Kathmandu-based research organization, that specializes on issues such as migration, social inclusion, and social dimensions of infrastructure development, among others. He has written extensively on Nepal’s contemporary political developments. Among his publications are: as co-author, A Kingdom under Siege: Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency, 1996–2004 (2005) and Gender and Social Exclusion in Nepal: Update (2013), and, as editor, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Nepal Peace Process, Accord Issue 26 (2017) and Understanding the Maoist Movement of Nepal (2003). He is also a columnist with The Kathmandu Post.