Global Alliance For Ministries and Departments of Peace

Nepal Peace Initiative Alliance

www.peace-nepal.org
www.aspectasia.org

Nepal Peace Initiative Alliance (NPIA) is a national alliance of NGOs, CBOs, CSOs, media, and educational organizations working for peacebuilding and conflict transformation in Nepal.

NPIA was formed in December 2005 through an alliance of 10 organizations, and the list has been growing day by day. Manish Thapa has been extensively involved with the various organizations in peacebuilding and conflict transformation in Nepal who were proposed for this alliance in December 2005. He has been working with them to initiate and build a long-term, sustainable platform for effective public participation, and representation for the concerns of the wider civil society in the emerging national peacebuilding and conflict transformation process in Nepal. This emerging network will also act as a working group within the International People’s Initiative for the Department of Peace which is a growing movement worldwide.

Objectives

The Nepal Peace Initiative Alliance envisions working together with various people and organizations concerned with peace, democracy and development holding the following objectives:

1. To be a part of an international initiative for the creation of Departments of Peace in governments throughout the world, including Nepal, by initiating a strong lobby for this purpose with a vision for starting on the path towards putting peace into power, and power into peace.
2. To nurture a deeper appreciation among people of the urgent need for peace, and to promote a culture of peace, democracy and development through the active processes of reconciliation and dialogue;
3. To create a better understanding at the popular level of peace as sine qua non for democracy and development.
4. To raise consciousness on the crucial importance of fostering attitudes, values and ideas at both the personal and community level, which will help us attain a peaceful world.
5. To inculcate within the human family, and at both the individual and collective levels, a profound commitment to a universal spiritual and moral vision of life and living together which will serve to guide humankind in its quest for peaceful co-existence and a just world;
6. To fight poverty, deprivation, ignorance and injustice as these are fundamental causes of conflicts and violence, and to develop institutions that sustain peace, democracy and development.
7. To enhance the capacities and expertise of the partner organizations by encouraging co-operation, facilitating information exchange, and stimulating the exchange of lessons learned and best practices in the network.

Individuals and organizations who are interested in working with us and join our campaign, contact:

Manish Thapa, Coordinator: peacealliance@gmail.com
Pramila KC, Secretary: prinsha16@yahoo.co.uk