Anna Townsend is a military wife and founder of Women Without Roofs – Nepal. She recently completed an MSc in Poverty Reduction and Development Management with IDD. She can be contacted at anna@wwr-nepal.org. In 2004 I accompanied my husband, a British Army Officer serving with the Gurkhas, to live in Kathmandu, Nepal and so began … Continue reading “Managing the consequences of Joanna Lumley’s campaign: Gurkhas and development in Nepal”
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Re-integrating ex-combatants in Nepal
Paul Jackson is Professor of African Politics and Head of IDD. His current research interests include the nature of the liberal state and the politics of liberal state-building in post-conflict situations; security sector reform and the relationship between security and development; external intervention in security issues; and governance and security. Nepal has had a traumatic … Continue reading “Re-integrating ex-combatants in Nepal”