Human Security in Nepal: Concepts, Issues and Challenges
The issue of security is a little-debated matter in our academic domain. When it comes to dealing human security, we often confront questions like: What constitutes human security? Why has it become so pertinent for a country like Nepal? How can human security be made tenable? These and many other questions on human security came to our mind before we decided to publish this book. This is our small attempt to address some of those questions and generate debate and discussion on the increasingly changing security dynamics of Nepal. This book is the collective outcome of the efforts of several people. Though it is not possible to list them all individually, we would like to extend our sincere thanks to them collectively. It would be unfair not to acknowledge some of the persons who were very instrumental in bringing the book into shape. Our first and foremost gratitude goes to the authors of the individual chapters, who despite their extremely busy schedules accepted our request to write a chapter. Without them, we cannot even think of the book. We would like to extend sincere thanks to Ms. Ramala Bhandari of the Nepal Institute for Policy Studies (NIPS) who took the burden of logistical support throughout the preparation of this book. Likewise, we extend our thanks to the staffs from the South Asia Regional Office of the National Centre of Competence of Research (NCCR) North-South, especially Mr. Siddhi Manadhar, Mr. Suman Babu Paudel and Mr. Safal Ghimire for their support at different stages of the preparation of this book. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr Sally Carlton of NIPS who worked hard to review all the chapters, prepared comments to send to the individual writers, as well edited the chapters for English language. The editors of the book Human Security in Nepal: Concepts, Issues and Challenges acknowledge support from the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North- South, co-funded by the Swiss i National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the participating institutions. We thank Ms Jyoti Khatiwada from Heidel Press, Dillibazar, for her hard work on formatting and designing the book. We invite constructive and valuable comments and suggestions from our esteemed readers.
Edited by Bishnu Raj Upreti Rajan Bhattarai Geja Sharma Wagle
