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Idea Action Programmes
Proposal of human rights awareness campaign
on
Peace making, peace keeping & peace building
Situation Analysis:
Nepal is in
deepening crisis, due to the ten years long violating conflict
between the government and the Maoists. More than 12,000 lives of
the people have been already gone in vain. Besides these
demolishment of physical infrastructures, growing number of
internal displacement and degrading economic growth of the country
have many burdens in every development portions of the nation. The
situation of children, youth and women has become more vulnerable.
Most of the educational institutions in the rural part of the
country have been almost closed and other educational institutions
in the urban areas are also affected due to the time and again
Banda
programme
by the revolutionaries group and their wings.
The rural life in the country has been more complex where people
have to be duel victim both from the government and as well as the
security forces. Some time they have to serve the Maoists and
should be punished by the security forces for providing shelter to
them and the same time, they have to punished or severely killed
by the Maoists on their blame of working as a spy to the security
forces.
Especially the youths in their society has been living in crucial
condition. Even at this stage youth issues has been widely
neglected from both the government and non-governmental sectors.
There are limited activities concerned with youths and their
issues and they have not reached in the grassroots in practice.
Youth are the potential force and carries some productive quality
to do some positive action in their society. Youth always spend
their time on transitional age. They have lots of burden and
responsibilities on their soldier. They have to carry equal
responsibility of their better future and dependent member of
their family. Sometime they become more ambitious and some time
more frustrate due to their age factor. They have to think about
their better career and the same time they should be sincere for
their nation and the community. Their community role also directly
or indirectly has mandated by certain responsibilities. These
emotional things some time make them highly capable and some time
destroy their life. These are the general features of common
youths.
The prevailing conflict has given a big blow to the future of
youth as well as to the Nepalese people. Common people with
different political beliefs, socio-economic and cultural
background from the conflict-affected areas have fled to save
their life as well as for employment alternatives. Therefore,
children, women and older population only cover the rural
villages. Existed employment options have cut off from both the
government and other non-governmental sectors due to the worst
security situation of the country. The killer and to be killer are
both youths whether they are the rebels or government security
forces. Their role and responsibilities have been limited and only
they are thought to the fore front warrior of different crossfire.
None of the group has raised voice for their important role on
peace keeping.
In this situation, it is needed to aware, empower and
motivate the people to be involved in the peace and development
campaign. At the same time, it has needed to listen their voices
and opinions about the current situation of the country and their
desire to transform the existing situation. By realizing this
present scenario and situation of the country we youths working
for the protection and promotion of human rights movement in
Nepal, a human rights awareness campaign for ‘culture of peace,
non-violence and justice’ has proposed to bring local awareness
for peace campaign and to bring the voce of
marginalised in the main stream of national development.
Definition:
Nation wide peace keeping, making & building programme
through marching campaign for highlighting the current human
rights concerned agendas of the people who are living in the
conflict zones will
organise.
A group of youth will go for marching, where they meet the
conflict victims, community people, local authorities and even the
revolutionaries, where they discuss and interact with a view to
collect their primary needs during and after the conflict. Those
collected agendas will submit to the government and disseminate
widely to take an appropriate action for improving the current
situation.
Objectives:
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To motivate people for peace processing campaign.
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To listen to the voice of victims and conflict parties for safe
landing of the present conflict.
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To bring the voice of common people in the mainstream of
national peace and development campaign.
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To highlight people’s agendas and enhance active youth
participation in the peace building campaign.
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To draw the attention of concern parties as desire by the common
people.
Justification:
It is right time to highlight people’s agendas, where both the
government and the Maoists have declared cease-fire and doing
homework for peace dialogue, to end the seven years long
revolutionary movement. At this moment, such activities will help
to pressurize them to work on youth related issues. They will
compel to take youth centered activities during peace and
development campaign.
This project will help to extend networking among youth
focused and other like-minded
organisation,
which could contribute to be together on common agendas, lobbying
and
pressurising
the government.
Finally, the project will assist for the protection and promotion
of human rights in the community. Community based campaign focused
on marginalized people will launch through active youth
participation. It will also empower community people and make them
alert to fight for their universally recognized human rights in
real sense.
Activities:
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Workshops:
A
national level workshop including the participants of marching
campaign, organizers, donors and other stakeholders will be
organized to make the marching campaign effective and powerful
to highlight the issues mentioned in the project objective
title.
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Orientation
and interaction with the campaigners:
Two days orientation programme to the members
of marching campaign will organize to make them sensitive,
responsible and to fulfill the goal of the marching campaign.
Resource persons who are currently working for human rights will
mobilise
for this purpose.
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Publication
and preparation of stuffs for the marching campaign:
Pham plates,
brochure, cloths and other stuffs required for marching campaign
will be prepared
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Press
conference, publicity and dissemination of the marching campaign:
press conference and other necessary dissemination
programme
will organize before conducting marching campaign.
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Marching
campaign:
This is a
month long programme that covers five most conflict affected
districts in the mid western region of the country. The major
activities of this marching campaign is to
organise
interaction in the district level with the participation of
conflicting parties, Victims, the representatives of civil
society and other concern authority of the respected district. A
total of ten youths regularly go for marching campaign and
coordinators and sub coordinators will regularly be in contact
with the campaigners and build up relation with the concern
parties, media and other civil group of the society as soon as
possible.
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Press
Conference and dissemination: Right after completion of marching campaign a press
conference in the national level will
organise to give information about the out put of the marching
campaign and the next effort of HRERLIC- Nepal.
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Submission of
Memorandum:
A memorandum will be submitted to both of the government-Maoist
conveners for proposed peace dialogue in order to make them
alert on youth issues. Similarly the impact of the campaign will
widely disseminated through media, websites, publications and
other means of communication.
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Publication
of Report:
A detailed
report (English as well as in Nepali version) including the
participants’ experience and the major out put of the marching
campaign will publish at the end of the
programme.
Methodology:
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Secretariat of the Idea Action will be responsible to formulate
national policies of the project.
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Education, Advocacy & Awareness Unit will establish to manage
the project.
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Field
coordinators will be responsible for
organising,
coordinating the local level interactions and meeting with
different concern parties.
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The campaigners for marching campaign will be responsible to
make the campaign as affective as possible.
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Besides these, local and district networks are the key
stakeholders of the activities performed during the project
period.
Outcome:
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Peoples’ agenda would be highlighted.
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Youth Participation on peace campaign will increase and their
role during conflict transformation would be identified.
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It will
sensitise the community people, local stake holders and
responsible position to transform the local conflict situation.
Risks of project:
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It might be
unsuccessful
programme
if the situation of the country turned towards violation.
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Lack of public participation and public involvement in the
marching campaign.
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Lack of
management from the
organisers.
Conclusion:
Marching campaign in its self a wider campaign where people
from very walks of life can inform, empower and involve directly
or indirectly for peace building processes. Particularly the
programme
will
sensitise and motivate the people to be involved in the local
level peace building process.
Budget Estimate:
It can be estimated in further discussion and clarification of
ideas proposed in the proposal.
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