"Peace and security are NOT pre-requisites for democracy but they prevail only in a democratic environment. " correct me if i am wrong...did not we establish a democracy in nepal in 2047....and hey, look where we are now? we had a democarcy for a while, but peace failed to prevail. why did that democracy fail? becasue we never had peace in the first place. even we get another democracy, it won't last long, until we adress the very deep rooted issues of maoist insurgency. everthing must be settled between teh different parties and the moaists, which is waht i refer to as peace, before we establish a democracy now. natra say deuba and his party comes to power throuhg "democratic" means, and what about the ohter six parties and the moaists....will your demcracy sans peace automatically work? won't they continue to protest against it? isn't that what happend last time when deuba was appointed PM by gyane? the remaining four parties continued to revolt... bunch of other examples in my mind....iraq! US is trying to shove down democrcy down iraq's thraot but wiht sooo much conflict between teh shiites and sunnis, wil it ever work??? the only way democracy will work in iraq if shittes and sunnis agree to sttle their conflicts -- this is peace. just establishing a democracy in iraq wihtout adressing the issues between these two groups is not going bring peace along........ my bottom line, jaba sass nai baki chaina ta democracy ko kam lagyo?