Ceasefire Code News Today

Though peace is an end in itself, it was also treated as a means in the war-torn Nepal.

KATHMANDU, Nov 20: It has been 17 years since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) between the Government of Nepal and the then CPN (Maoist) rebels, bringing an end to the decade-long armed conflict in the country.

. Last week, Critical State took a deep dive into research on the unseen labor that civilians do to rebuild society after armed conflict. The costs for that work are high, and are rarely acknowledged by the governments that benefit from it. This week, we look at new research on what happens when governments do acknowledge that work — at least long enough to exploit it. In an article in the journal International Peacekeeping, Margaux Pinaud describes a situation in which the government explici...