Nepal's Tumbling Peace

Krishna Hari Pushkar

Every successful peace process has its time bound broader strategic norms along with an estimated destination. However, Nepal's peace process has been running in a mysterious rhythm. Neither the government itself nor related stakeholders are found serious, even the estimated destination of ongoing peace process of Nepal is under dubiousness. So, the ongoing peace process seems falling down into limbo. Appallingly, all larger and smaller parties attempt to take leadership of cabinet without caring the cost. There is no more seriousness whether the cost is insurgency or wreck or disposing existing peace process. As well, the diplomatic gravity is also being observed in centripetal pose to hop-on-hop-off the cabinet rather to gearing the peace process. Also, it has largely realized the ailing role of United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) and its continuous faulty stratagem has also become one of the most controversial and balking for the path to sustainable peace.

It is seen that all internal and external peace actors are visibly performing against the ethics of peace process and bouncing beyond the edge of comprehensive peace accord. So, how can Nepal's peace process go normally in such situation towards its expected end? Forlornly, it is hapless to describe that no any single direct and indirect actors found sincere and practically committed towards the success of ongoing peace process of Nepal. If the situation continues, it won't be surprising when the moist battalions decide to return jungle or government imposes special op against ethno-political combatants. It is unfortunate that some vested politicians' declares that re-insurgency or re-warfare is held in search of peace, however it has proved blunder to impel for “breach peace for peace”.

Many concerned people self-interact with bunch of FAQs on Nepal's peace process, where they often find less hopes for expected peace while interacting with honest hearts and minds, as people can easily observe the status quo anxious of ongoing peace process. There are very limited professionals involved in Nepal's' peace process. People feel sorry to see even the dishonesty, weakness, passiveness, and regressive attitudes of branded track 1, track 2 and track 3 diplomats. It is because the drawing, design and also involved technician of peace process have proved bluntly sprawled from its required standard. One of the weakest parts of the peace process is to be deficient in essential technical foundation and spares required for maintenance and cog during the motion while implementing the action plan of peace process. Frankly writing, the existing peace process's mechanism is a crowd of vested generalist, while a successful process required more specialists related to the entire areas and issues of respective peace process.

Specially, there are some most crosscutting dimensions of Nepal's peace process including the areas of constitution writing, government and governance system, combatant integration, social inclusion, restructuring of the nation, power share and division, equitable mainstreaming, balance development and particularly the issues related to ethno-regional problems of disadvantages and deprived groups. In addition, the equation gamble of primeministership has become also a like a virus affected dos-mode where most of the politicians and parties do not accept others' leadership to address the issue of peace process. Each of them has a consecutive attitude and believes that his or her supremacy is only the option that could take leadership and deal with the issue properly, which is one of the most untoward parts of the peace process. Unfortunately, no party is ready to accept others headship, whether the peace process collapses or get betrayed.

Ultimately, the general public is a sole victim of tumbling peace process of Nepal. The tumbling peace process can be treated by using various corrective methods. Therefore, all parties must understand that they are in interim transitional phases so, they should establish democratic multi party or multi party consensus government immediately before to take any decision regarding the peace process, if they really want to have true implementation of comprehensive peace accord.

The mutually agreed pluralistic government may helpful to enforce the decisions accordance with the spirit of comprehensive peace accord. Indeed, it will also assistive to move forward the constitution building and parliamentary process in democratic ways. Moreover, Track 1, 2 and 3 parties' requires productive involvement along with civic participation in special technical committees, which should broadly focus on efficient and effective peace process implementation, monitoring and supervision affairs. Nepal is passing through most fragile situation, so the security sector reform and democratization of state and non-state forces need to keep under special priority.

Naturally, general citizens specially the disadvantages and marginalized groups are expecting the honest implementation of social inclusion policy, social justice and mainstreaming policy in entire areas of the nation including political representation, employment and developmental affairs. Now expert illustrate that PLA integration and management is one of the most complex proportions of the peace process, so the justified and legitimated norms need to be developed which can prevent from the possible explode of cantonment based combatants.

Local as well as global pressure and efforts through the diplomatic system requires for maintaining and keeping curb to the peace process within rationale borderline. In addition, Nepal is a democratic country, so the true civil supremacy should be kept in the top priority but the heightening crisis over the peace and tumbling character in the peace process, governance, and government or even in the development works has created a crucial hegemony. Therefore, to prevent from the danger the peace process should be operated by a sustainable system in balance manner, otherwise peace can be breach any time and peace process will remains infinitely in tumbling position. The state and non-state peace pundits should carefully understand that peace has its two core frequencies which are psychological and physical peace assurances that must bring simultaneously to the general public, therefore ongoing faulty Nepal's' peace process must treat clinically to confiscate the crumpling technicalities of filtering peace process.

(Mr. Pushkar is a Peace and Conflict Management Expert and works under the Ministry of Home Affairs/Government of Nepal, Email: khpushkar@gmail.com )

Author's Bio: Mr. Pushkar was a DAAD fellow and studied research master in peace and conflict studies in Germany. In addition, he holds an internationally honored first class master degree in public administration. He has participated in dozens of national and international trainings, seminar, and workshops programs related to governance, migration, ethnicity, social inclusion, human rights, diplomacy, peace, security and conflict management in US, Europe and Asian countries. Mr. Pushkar often writes opinion articles, reports, conduct researches and publish commentary notes on the various contemporary issues related to the areas of his expertise, specially with reference to Nepal. He has been working under the Ministry of Home Affairs/Government of Nepal and well honored as a Peace, Security and Conflict Management Professional. Mr. Pushkar actively involves and also contributes regularly to the dozens of national and international nongovernmental organizations as a capacity of peace and conflict management expert.

Police Terror _ Immigration Strike & Corruption in Kathmandu Airport

Dear All,

We would like have some valued suggestions from you about our immigration system, especially about the issue of our International Airport. Actually, we are facing several criticisms from the foreigners as well from our citizens too. They often accuse that the overall management of TIA is very poor, buck passing, corruption and mental torture for general travelers are very common. In this regard, some of our recently transferred colleagues are committed to reform on the issues related to overall ill practices and sick management areas of TIA. Though, it is very tough job and could not be achievable until and unless the all airport related authorities and public work together collectively for betterment.

I am stressed to talk about the recently appeared some incidents:

In last two weeks, there are huge tensions among the labor desk, police and Immigration personnel over ill culture of work and crooked manner of police. Consequently, the immigration works were forced to stop (strikes) till now three times for half an hour, where entire passenger has to suffer and flights were in difficulties, newest incidents were appeared tomorrow at apx 9:45 at night too,where I was presented and observed the entire incident in departure section. The cause behind was illegal police torture to the Nepalese tourist and labor. They were got clearance from immigration accordance with the law and its system, however refused by a boozy police team talking that the paper is not enough for traveling abroad; even they had valid immigration clearance, ticket, passport, visa and necessary foreign currency.

Actually, police are doing all the things except policing. In plane word, police is poorly maintaining security and controlling criminal activities in Airport zone. As a proof, you might have heard recently, that the money, laptop, cash etc were looted from the car inside the airport by criminal, bomb were blasted near by airport. The general airport staffs have to suffer with the regular tension of helmet and fuel robbery from the parked vehicle, specially from the security restricted zone, though police are deaf and dump about the matter.

The Airport is suffering with the terror of police. They act beyond their responsibility and use to check visa and passport and often doing torture and saverly exploit to the labors, who can not react for their rights. The serious matter is the job related to visa passport /documents control is assigned to Immigration authorities by immigration laws, even though the police interfering in immigration system and doing malpractices.

Now every one can see it, police check illegally and ill mannerly visa and passport in the golden gate, entry gate of inner gate, in the ladder before entering in immigration zone, and also after the immigration clearance, it could happened even in boarding time too, if you could not able to please the police. Normally, they are not supposed to do except the case of criminal affairs and some rare circumstances. The uniformed and uninformed polices very often terrorize to rural people. The labor as well as manpower has to pay lots of money for them, otherwise police will block even the legal people to get inside in the flights.

Actually, labor and many innocent people do not know much about the core immigration system and its personnel, so they think all the difficulties are created by Immigration authorities and they complain everywhere about the matter, which is partially right only. To be honest, I do not refuse some ill culture exist in our system; however, the reform is in progress.

We have informed to our higher authorities as well Akhtiyar and specially to the ministers who use to come for observation, so hoping they are working to resolve the issue soon.

In this regards, we will be thankful, if you could contribute your suggestions that will be collectively send to our concerned authorities for reform of overall Airport System. Thank you.