Please note that this discussion w ill be held in Nepali\, with Q&A to follow. Light refreshments will be serv ed.

Jeevan Baniya is a Researcher at Social Science Baha\, a not-for profit research organization in Nepal. He is also a teaching faculty at MIRD and CPDS Tribhuvan Universi ty where he teaches master’s degree courses in State Building and State Fai lure in the Developing World\, Public Policy and Governance\, Comparative P olitics and Development Studies. He worked as a research fellow at the Naut ilus Institute (Seoul Branch) and Democracy and Social Movements Institute (DaSMI)\, Sungkonghoe University\, Seoul\, South Korea. He also briefly wor ked for the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA)\, the Government of Nep al\, as a Social Inclusion and Grievance Management Advisor for the Rural H ousing Reconstruction Programme (RHRP). He has published on state and socie ty relations\, inclusion and exclusion\, conflicts and peace\, gender\, pol itics and development\, governance\, labour migration\, disasters. Current ly\, he is involved as a Co-Investigator in the AHRC-funded research projec t\, ‘After the Earth’s Violent Sway: the tangible and intangible legacies o f a natural disaster’ at SOAS\, London.

Subin Mulmi is a Lawyer and Researcher working on issues related to human rights. His research work includes studies on subjects suc h as citizenship\, legal identity\, gender\, affirmative action and statele ssness. In particular he was one of the researchers for studies on ‘Acquisi tion of Citizenship Certificates in Nepal: Estimation and Projection’ and ‘ Legal Analysis of Citizenship Laws of Nepal’. He is currently engaged in th e research on ‘Women’s ownership of land and house\, and its impact on thei r economic empowerment’\, ‘Acquisition of birth registration and other vita l events registration certificate in Nepal’\, and ‘Women’s special opportun ities in Nepal’.

Dinesh Paudel< /strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Sustainable Development Departmen t at Appalachian State University. Before coming to Appalachian\, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at Dartmouth College whe re he taught courses on Environment and Development\, Geographies of Protes t and Revolution\, and Gender and Development. He received his PhD in Geogr aphy from the University of Minnesota in 2012 where he studied the historic al connections between international development programs and the rise of M aoist uprisings in Nepal. Broadly\, he is interested in understanding how d evelopment discourses originate and travel\, and how they articulate with e conomic\, ecological and political processes at multiple scales. One of his current research projects focuses in exploring the inherent relationships and complex entanglements between the rising Asian economies\, growing envi ronmental degradations and rapidly expanding rebellious politics in South A sia.

Deepak Thap a is the Director of the Social Science Baha\, a Kathmandu-bas ed research organisation\, that specialises on issues such as migration\, s ocial inclusion\, and social dimensions of infrastructure development\, amo ng others. He has written extensively on Nepal’s contemporary political dev elopments. Among his publications are: as co-author\, A Kingdom under Siege: Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency\, 1996–2004 (2005) and Gender and Social Exclusion in Nepal: Update (2013)\, an d\, as editor\, Two Steps Forward\, One Step B ack: The Nepal Peace Process\, Accord Issue 2 6 (2017) and Understanding the Maoist Movement of Nepal (2003). He is also a columnist with The Kathmandu Post.Deepak Thapa is the Director of the Social Science Baha\, a Kathmandu-b ased research organisation\, that specialises on issues such as migration\, social inclusion\, and social dimensions of infrastructure development\, a mong others. He has written extensively on Nepal’s contemporary political d evelopments. Among his publications are: as co-author\, A Kingdom under Siege: Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency\, 1996–2004 (2005) and Gender an d Social Exclusion in Nepal: Update (2013)\, and\, as editor\, Two Steps Forward\, One Step Back: The Nepal Peace Process\, Accord Issue 26 (2017) and Understanding the Maoist Moveme nt of Nepal (2003). He is also a columnist wi th The Kathmandu Post.

This event is co-sponsored by NCSBC and the UBC Himalaya Program wi th support from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Partnersh ip Development Grant.