The Maoist conflict in Nepal: a Himalayan perdition?

Cottle, Drew; Keys, Angela

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“…Exclusion, geographical constrains and ethnic disparity were the basis for the Maoist rebellion in Nepal (Acharya, 2009;Cottle & Keys, 2007). Similarly, communist ideology promising 'greater social inclusion' provided more room for accelerating the insurgency through indoctrinating people.…”

Section: The Nexus Between Violence and Political Parties In Nepalmentioning

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“…Youthquake is something the Oxford dictionary defines as 'a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people'. One examples of Youthquake as a phenomenon is the Maoists rebellion that happened in Nepal where a majority of the insurgents were youth (Acharya, 2009;Cottle & Keys, 2007;Hutt, 2004;Saferworld, 2010;Shakya, 2011;Uprety, 2010). Youths sacrificed their lives for the transformation of the political system in Nepal.…”

Section: Youth Identity and Political Violencementioning

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Understanding Youth Political Violence in Nepal

Shrestha

Jenkins

2019

Millennial Asia

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Social, economic and political injustice promotes violence among youth. Political parties involved in Nepali democratic upheavals resort to violence; this is where youth are portrayed as major actors in performing violent acts. Youths have always taken part in these political struggles. Political parties have used facts that relate to people suffering from various miseries as a means of manoeuvring and mobilizing youth to participate in armed struggles and uprisings. One would expect these violent episodes to have decreased as the country is now transitioning from armed conflict towards a sustainable peace, but instead postwar Nepal has been continuously facing challenges that youth are posing through their violent behaviours. Addressing issues of unemployment, a corrupt political culture, nepotism and inappropriate political socialization are factors which require urgent responses with political commitment to stop youth participation in political violence. One way to realize this would be to encourage youth engagement in positive peace-building endeavours in Nepal.

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Section: The Nexus Between Violence and Political Parties In Nepalmentioning

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Section: Youth Identity and Political Violencementioning

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Understanding Youth Political Violence in Nepal

Shrestha

Jenkins

2019

Millennial Asia

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“…Thinking that the police action against the Maoists would be enough, King Birendra chose not to deploy the Royal Nepalese Army (RNA) against the Maoists. Instead, more police were sent into rural areas, despite the fact that police were one of the main targets of the Maoists (Cottle and Keys 2007: 172). The Nepali government attempted to negotiate with the Maoists from time to time through mediators like Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Rishikesh Shah, Jaya Anand, Birendra Kesharia Pokharel, and Bishwakant Mainiali, but ended without any success.…”

Section: A Brief Note On Nepalese State’s Response During the Conflictmentioning

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“…Finally, under pressure from all corners including political parties, the Maoists and the civil society, King Gyanendra reinstated government in April 2006. The government entered negotiations with the Maoists which culminated in the ceasefire agreement that was concluded on June 16, 2006 (Cottle and Keys 2007: 174). Subsequently, the negotiations between the SPA and the Maoists reached to the formulation of an eight-point agreement.…”

Section: Post Jana Andolan—2006 Situation and The Cpn (Maoist)mentioning

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Child Combatants of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Nepal: A Human Rights Perspective, 1996–2013

Meher

2017

Jadavpur Journal of International Relations

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The study analyzes involvement of children in the decade-long Maoist armed conflict in Nepal, an issue of grave human rights violations. An armed conflict affects all sections of the society irrespective of caste, class, gender, region, and religion. However, children have been one of the most vulnerable groups in the Maoist conflict in Nepal. The decade-long Maoist conflict in Nepal has various implications on children such as disruption of education, separation from families, killing and maiming, illegal detention, disability resulting from the conflict, etc. Thus, there has been gross human rights violation of children during the conflict. But one of the worst forms of implications of the Maoist conflict has been the recruitment of children as combatants by the Maoist Army, otherwise known as the People’s Liberation Army, formed in 2001, in their fight against the state forces, which is the focus of this study. The article explores how the poor disadvantaged children have been the major target of recruitment by the Maoist. It discusses the role played by the child recruits during the conflict. Besides, it examines the role played particularly by the United Nations as well as the Nepali civil societies in the protection, rehabilitation, and reintegration of children into the civil society.

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“…Indeed, one could argue that the Indian government was probably more concerned about a possible spillover effects of a Maoist takeover in Nepal on the Naxalite insurgencies in its own country than about a possible end of the democratic movement in the mountain kingdom (Cottle andKeys, 2007, p. 173, Malone 2011, p. 117). Instead, India has been willing to support the traditional two-pillar structure of constitutional monarchy and multiparty democracy, which characterized the Nepal's political system for a long time as long as this guaranteed the continued exclusion of Maoists from the political process.…”

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India and South Asia in the world: on the embeddedness of regions in the international system and its consequences for regional powers

Prys

2013

International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

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The Maoist conflict in Nepal: a Himalayan perdition?

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Understanding Youth Political Violence in Nepal

Understanding Youth Political Violence in Nepal

Child Combatants of the Maoist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Nepal: A Human Rights Perspective, 1996–2013

India and South Asia in the world: on the embeddedness of regions in the international system and its consequences for regional powers

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