Economic issues have been key factors in many conflicts around the globe. Miall affirms that conflicts are inevitably influenced by economic and political forces. Lederach writes that such forces can interdependently contribute to conflict transformation. On occasions corporate actors can be seen to have played decisive roles, both triggering conflicts and transforming conflict. Hence, corporate actors may be both the boon and the bane for society. In this context, this paper discusses the relationship between corporate actors and conflict transformation with a special focus on Nepal.
Ghimire, Safal and Upreti, Bishnu Raj. 2012. Corporate Engagement for Conflict Transformation: Conceptualizing the Business-Peace Interface. The Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security 2(1): 77-100.
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Thieme S, Bhattrai R, Gurung G, Kollmair M, Manandhar S, Müller-Böker U. 2005. Addressing the needs of Nepalese migrant workers in Nepal and in Delhi, India. Mountain Research and Development 25(2): 109-114.
Upreti BR. 2006. People’s Movement and Transformation of the State in Nepal: Challenges and Risks Ahead. Readings on Governance and Development 7:15-23.
Matthew R, Upreti BR. 2006. Environmental stress and demographic change in Nepal: Underlying conditions contributing to a decade of insurgency. Environmental Change and Security Program Report 11:29-39.
Upreti BR. 2007. Restructuring Nepal Army: A Conflict Transformation Perspective. Nepali Journal of Contemporary Studies 7(1):69-94.
Upreti BR. 2007. Nepal’s pathway for peaceful transformation and challenges ahead. Readings on Governance and Development 8:18-25.
Upreti BR. 2007. Dispute settlement at the local level: Observations and lessons from Nepal. In: Gellner DN, Hachhethu K, editors. Local Democracy in South Asia: Micro-processes of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours. New Delhi: The Micro Politics of Democratization: European South Asian Exchange on Governance, Conflict and Civic Action, pp 150-174.
Upreti BR. 2007. Changing political context, new power relations and hydro-conflict in Nepal. In: Rotberg F, Swain A, editors. Natural Resources Security in South Asia: Nepal’s Water. Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy, pp 15-65.
Upreti BR. 2007. Addressing structural causes of conflict and promoting peace through conflict sensitive development: Some lessons from Nepal. In: Dhungana H, Logan M, editors. Sustainable Development in Conflict Environments: Challenges and Opportunities. Kathmandu: Canadian Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI), pp 53-66.
Upreti BR. 2008. Towards a culture of constitutional peace. In: Bächler G, editor. Nepal Building New Roads to Peace. Lalitpur: Jagadamba Press, pp 68-81.
Upreti BR. 2008. The peace process in Nepal: Overview from a Nepalese perspective. Swiss Peace Policy, Publication of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs 2008(1): 4-13.
Upreti BR. 2008. Security systems in Nepal: Immediate concerns and long term perspectives. Human Rights Campaign 2(2): 21-30.
Upreti BR. 2008. Managing war to peace transition in Nepal. Readings on Governance and Development 11: 35-49.
Bächler G, Acharya N, Dammann P, Rajbandhari R, Upreti BR. 2008. Nepal Building New Roads to Peace. Lalitpur. Jagadamba Press.
Upreti, B.R. 2009. Nepal from war to peace: legacies of the past and hopes for the futures. New Delhi: Adroit Publishers.
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Upreti BR. 2009. Resource governance and livelihood concerns: Park-people conflict in the Eastern Terai of Nepal. In: Geiser U, Rist S, editors. Decentralisation Meets Local Complexity: Local Struggles, State Decentralisation and Acces to Natural Resources in South Asia and Latin America. Bern: Geographica Bernensia, pp 217-248.
Kollmair M, Manandhar S, Subedi BP, Thieme S. 2006. New figures for old stories: Migration and remittances in Nepal. Migration Letters 3(2): 151-160.
Upadhayaya PK, Upreti BR. 2008. Enhancing Women’s Participation in Mountain Tourism, Prospects and Challenges. Mountain Forum.
Barbora S, Thieme S, Siegmann KA, Menon V, Gurung G. 2008. Migration matters in South Asia: Commonalities and critiques. Economic and Political Weekly 43(24): 57-65.
Gurung G, Sharma BM, Manandhar S. 2013. Protecting Nepalese women migrant workers. Evidence for Policy Series, Regional edition South Asia, No. 10, ed. Bishnu Raj Upreti. Kathmandu, Nepal:NCCR North South.
A longitudinal panel survey in a conflict-affected situation! Are you crazy? 19 December 2012
SLRC is doing a quantitative survey in its seven focus countries to explore how livelihoods recover following conflict and how access to basic services affects perceptions of government. Not only are we trying to do a representative, statistically significant survey, we aim to make it into a longitudinal panel by returning to the same households in three years time… [Click here to read the full-text blog]
Authors are: Bishnu Raj Upreti, Devendra Prasad Adhikari, Sharmila Shiwakoti and Ashild Kolas
Authors are: Bishnu Raj Upreti, Gopikesh Acharya and Annal Tandukar
