Like Yeast That Leavens the Dough? Community Mediation as Local Infrastructure for Peace in Nepal

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Notes

¹ Coyle and Dalrymple provide the following definitions: anjuman is a committee of three men from within the Muslim samaaj, or membership-based ethnic society, who are responsible for resolving disputes within the Muslim community; the mukhiya system refers to the dispute resolution practices of the Thakali communities of north-central Nepal; and pancha bhaladmi, a traditional informal justice system operating in areas of eastern Nepal, are a fixed council of five elders from the community who would form in order to arbitrate disputes in their community (2011, iv–vi).

² Clauses 33 and 101 relating to mediation have still to be enacted.

³ Based on the February 17, 2009, figures compiled by the Nepal Alternative Dispute Resolution Coordination Group.

⁴ Pro Public became an implementation partner of TAF in 2003. The other partners of TAF are Service to Underprivileged Sectors of Society, the Centre for Legal Research and Resources Development, the Rural Women's Unity and Development Centre and the Institute for Governance and Democracy.

⁵ Pro Public translates I4P as shantiko laagi purbadhar in Nepali, which seems to resonate well with local politicians, policy makers, NGO staff and community mediators.

⁶ As suggested by various participants during a meeting on I4P in Nepal, hosted by the government of Nepal and initiated by Pro Public with the support of ZFD/GIZ, in Kathmandu in August 2012, in which representatives of ministries, embassy officials and international donors participated.