Title: "Constitutionalism and Democracy in Nepal"
A Civil Society Perspective
Speaker: Dwarika Nath Dhungel, Executive Director
Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS)
Date: March 9, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15PM
Location: Fireside Room, Dudley House, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Synopsis:
Dr. Dwarika Nath Dhungel will provide the civil society's perspective on the ongoing movement, constitutional stalemate and resolution avenues for the political problems plaguing Nepal. During the discussion, he will share his experiences of the administrative system of Nepal and the prospects of social science research and activism in Nepal.
Speaker:
Dr Dhungel is the Executive Director of the Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), a non-governmental and non-profit organization based in Kathmandu, Nepal. IIDS’s mission is to contribute to the identification, analysis, understanding and response to major development policy issues facing Nepal.
Dr Dhungel has thirty years of experience as a civil servant in Nepal. He held various high-level positions as Permanent Secretary to the Ministries of Water Resources, General Administration and Land Reforms and Management. He was a joint secretary of the "Prasasan Sudhar Aayog" founded after the 1990 democratic movement aimed at improving the Nepali administrative process. As a secretary at the Ministry of Water Resources, he was involved in issues like "Mahakali Sandhi" and “Kalapani”.
After retiring from Civil Service in 1998, Dr. Dhungel continues to provide intellectual input to Good Governance Reforms, Administrative and Land reforms. He has written several books and articles on administrative and governance reforms, local planning and decentralization. He is actively involved in the national debates on finding a peaceful solution to the decade long Maoist insurgency in Nepal.
He is currently a steering committee member of the South-Asia Network of Economic Institutions (SANEI) and a board member of South-Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS).
Dr Dhungel was awarded the SPURS fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds a PhD in Philosophy from Nagpur University, India. He was also a visiting scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
----------------------------------------------------------ChhalPhal Discussion Series is a regular Nepal-related discussion program held in the Boston area. For more information, please contact chhalphal@chhahari.com. Or shaileshgongal@hotmail.com or prasanna_dhungel@hotmail.com
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