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PROGRESS: Has your organization seen
progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of
action and in your constituency during the first half of the Decade? |
Our
organization beleives in a motto, "there is no way to peace, but peace
is the way". So, our attempt has been to practice peace not only in
daily life by ourselves but also urge and encourage youths of Nepal to
do so by themselves.
Having a glance at datas and figures of
death in both party of maoists and army due to the ongoing armed
conflict in Nepal: the situations seems deteoriating each and every
day. However, the awareness of peace, the need and craving for peaceful
way of life has been increased too. So, this first half of the decade:
we have realized comes with a double stroke: fear of violence and at
the same time hope of peace.
we don't have specific indicators
to measure progress but we are analyzing these aspects through the
opinions youth express through our regular youth interaction programme
and also through various activities that we have been organizing in
various occasions.
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OBSTACLES: What are the most important obstacles that have prevented progress?
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The
most important obstacles in terms of Nepal percieved by most of the
Nepali people is definitely its political system. Nepal's political
system, be it authotarian rana regime, few so called blissful years of
democracy post 1951-1970 or autocratic panchayat rule till 1990's to
restoration of democracy in 1991: Nepal's political system was never
people led and based on people's wishes and aspirations. It has always
been ruler led.
But more than that: there is a vicious circle
of poverty: both economical and intellectual. We have always been
copying things from outside. We have been brainwashed that other
countries and their ways are better. We stopped to trust our own
system, belief in our own culture, religion and our own spirituality.
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ACTIONS: What actions have been
undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence during the first half of the Decade?
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We
haven't been able to do anything big. Neither we do believe that big
things matter but rather we are trying to do small things to bring
small changes.
we organize weekly programme named "seed of
peace" for street and disadvantaged children. We share our knowledge
and experiences with them and we at the same time been learning lot
from them too. The major objective of this programme is to develop the
innate potentiality and creativity of children that they would get
strong foundation in their childhood to help them to lead peaceful life
in their adulthood and afterwards.
Besides that we organize a
monthly youth interaction programme named " Thoughts of Youth". In each
programme we raise a burning issue and share our experiences and
knowledge with each other. This programme has been very effective to
bring like minded youth together in a same platform who beleive in the
values of peace.
Our oraganization is recently formed
since last year. Last year in international peace day we organized a
one day youth conference with special focus on awareness of peace.
This
year, we are planning to organize a 3 day in house camp. We are
extensively planning for the event, which we hope would make a positive
contributions to youths of Nepal
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ADVICE: What advice would you like to
give to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to promote a
culture of peace and nonviolence during the second half of the Decade? |
The
first and foremost thing we realized is the need of spirituality and
self awareness. This is the age of technical revolution. Our life is
being more and more mechanized every day. This unnatural life style has
breed a feeling of violence among youths.
If children ever
since their early age are helped to develop their inner potentialit and
express their creativity: things would be much better.
So, our organization more beleives in spiritual development than economic one.
We suggest that UN involve more and more youths in peace building process to envision a peaceful world in the days to come.
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PARTNERSHIPS: What partnerships and
networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the
global movement for a culture of peace? |
Our
organization is closely linked with a big network of social
organizations of Nepal. Our Patron, Dr.C.M. Yogi, principal of Hindu
Vidya Peeth Nepal helps us to build this network much stronger and be
more effective.
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PLANS: What new engagements are
planned by your organization to promote a culture of peace and
nonviolence in the second half of the Decade (2005-2010)? |
We
have a plan to conduct an international peace conference in Nepal
by the end of 2005. Nepal, being the cradle of spirituality and quiet
famous for its mysticism and religious practices is the most ideal
place to held a dialogue for peace, since it was from here that Budhha
gave first message of peace.
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Postal address of organization
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Youth Society for Peace
Hindu Vidya-Peeth Nepal
P.O.BOX-6807, Lalitpur, Nepal
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E-mail address of organization
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yspnepal@hotmail.com; cmyogi@wlink.com.np
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Website address of organization
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www.hvpnepal.org( under construction)
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Highest priority action domain of a culture of peace
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Culture of Peace Domains
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Second priority action domain of a culture of peace
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International Peace and Security
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Highest priority country of action (or international)
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International
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Second priority country of action (or international)
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International
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