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by Bishnu Pathak, PhD and Surendra Uprety  AbstractSince its establishment, the United Nations has become a formidable force toward disarmament, demobilization, reinsertion, repatriation, resettlement, rehabilitation, and (re)integration (DDRRRRR) (Pathak: September 13, 2011:3) or disarmament, demobilization, and (re)integration (DDR) of the armed/military forces and the right sizing of military and armed forces as a whole. Advocating Civil Military Relations (CMR), Huntington developed the…See More

SettingCitizen-Centric Policing (CCP) or Neighborhood Policing (NP) is radar of Community Policing (CP).  The CP is a policing practice that aims to increase interaction between citizens and police officials for public safety and quality of life in the community (Wycoff: 1994).  It is more than tactics, strategy, and technique (Trojanowicz: 1998).  It has become the national mantra to spring up in urban, suburban, and even rural police departments (Greene: 2000) or police stations.  The CP…See More

 INTERNATIONAL SEMINARTeacher Education for Peace and Harmony INTRODUCTION Recently world has seen nuclear catastrophe during Tsunami in Japan, political Tsunami in Middle East and Africa; racial & ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, east Asia and middle-east; terrorist and fundamentalist attacks in India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan  and other countries as well as Maoist Violence in south Asia. This shows the expression of intolerance, manifestations of racial and ethnic hatred, the…See More

Bishnu Pathak, PhD* The burgeoning Chinese, In­dian and Pakistani influence raises alarm in transitional Nepal which has an open border with both China and India. India encircles it from three sides east, west and south with a 1,751 km long largely porous border, unmarked and unguarded, whereas China lies to the north with 1,414 km of inac­cessible border. It is not possible to cross this border owing to elevation of snowy mountains and tight secu­rity on the Chinese side. The recent…See More

The UNMIN obtained a final four-month extension effective from September 16, 2010 till January 15, 2011. The UNMIN ended its role ow­ing to heavy criticism from non-Mao­ist parties and returned from Nepal. It withdrew leaving reintegration, rehabilitation and democratization half-way, unlike many other UN missions in the world… A Special Committee (SC) has re­placed the UNMIN and implements its mandate against provisional ethics. The UNMIN was established under Nepal’s special circumstances. It…See More

SettingAfter successfully ousting Tunisian and Egyptian tyrannical regimes, the oppressed masses have taken to the streets of numerous cities in the Arab World with the hope that change for freedom is possible. The Arab world has a long history of frozen conflicts, but from the gravity of events in the first quarter of 2011, it has already been a year of people’s uprising. The North Africa and Middle East civil resistance marks an unprecedented revolutionary wave. Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and so…See More