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This book is based on a report that was itself based on research undertaken during 2014 and 2015 in collaboration with the Nepal Madhesh Foundation (NEMAF) and funded by the US-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). The report combined a review of the secondary data available in published and unpublished sources with the analysis of the findings of fieldwork undertaken by a NEMAF team during May-July 2015, in Kathmandu and in ...
In Hope and in Fear provides a unique insight into how ordinary Nepalis experienced and lived through the Maoist insurgency. Their hopes and their fears, and the way in which they responded to and coped with the anxieties, tensions are pressures generated by the conflict, are the central concern of this collection. Providing a historical background to the launching of the Maoist insurgency in February 1996, the first part of the book also gives perspectives on ...
In February 1996, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched a''people's War' basing their strategy on the writings and experience of Maotse-Tung, but also drawing on more recent experiences in ?Asia and Latin America (notably that of the ''Shining Path movement in Peru) . Although subject to aggressive police operations in the early years, the rebels were able to establish themselves in the mid-west of Nepal and began to extend the ...