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The Agenda of Transformation:
Inclusion in Nepali Democracy
Kathmandu
24-26 April 2003
The international conference ‘The Agenda
of Transformation: Inclusion in Nepali Democracy’
was held at the Birendra International Convention
Centre, Kathmandu, on 24-26 April, 2003. It was
the culmination of preparations that began in
November 2002, when a circular
inviting papers for the conference was sent out.
Following enthusiastic responses from academic
circles both from Nepal and abroad, 33 papers
were ultimately chosen for the conference. However,
as the conference approached, one of the presenters
opted out, and so a total of 32 presentations
were made at two concurrent sessions spread over
three days. There was also a separate paper sent
by someone who could not attend the conference
personally.
Besides the paper presentations, plenaries were
held in the early morning sessions. The first,
on 24 April, saw the inauguration of The Mahesh
Chandra Regmi Lecture—which the Social Science
Baha plans to make an annual event—with
Dr Harka Gurung presenting ‘Trident
and Thunderbolt: Cultural Dynamics in Nepalese
Politics’. The other two plenary sessions
were ‘Inclusion and Regional Space’
(25 April) and ‘Women in Nepali Democracy’
(26 April). Details of the conference schedule
are attached. On the evening of the 25th, the
film Nepal by Toni Hagen was screened in memory
of Prof Hagen, who had been planning to attend
the conference but passed away just a few days
earlier.
An estimated 500 people attended the plenaries
and the paper presentations. Of these, 248 registered
to attend the concurrent paper presentations.
A summary of
the paper presentations is also included with
this.
The conference was supported jointly by the
Embassy of Finland, the Enabling State Programme
(ESP), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
(SDC) and the Toni Hagen Foundation–Europe.
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