Friday, October 17, 2014
Research Paper on Community Mediation published by London School of Economics
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I coauthored a research paper with Preeti Thapa from The Asia Foundation's Nepal office. The subject was the Foundation's Community Mediation program and the usage of the phrase 'social harmony' in the program.
The research was conducted for a joint collaboration between The Asia Foundation and the Justice and Security Research Program at the London School of Economics. The LSE published the paper this week, and is available here.
Here is the brief description of the paper from LSE's website:
I coauthored a research paper with Preeti Thapa from The Asia Foundation's Nepal office. The subject was the Foundation's Community Mediation program and the usage of the phrase 'social harmony' in the program.
The research was conducted for a joint collaboration between The Asia Foundation and the Justice and Security Research Program at the London School of Economics. The LSE published the paper this week, and is available here.
Here is the brief description of the paper from LSE's website:
This is a companion paper to JSRP Paper 5 ‘Community Mediation and Social Harmony in Nepal’ examiningThe Asia Foundation's (TAF) Theory of Change realting to its community mediation programme and focusing particularly on the link between the programme and improved social harmony. Stein’s paper argued that there is evidence of improved social harmony at the individual level but that evidence is lacking for community level outcomes. Similarly, she claimed that there is evidence of the empowerment of individual mediators from marginalized groups but the broader impact of such empowerment on social harmony lacks robust evidence.
In this response the authors aim to clarify some of the issues and concerns raised in Stein’s paper. Starting with a brief historical background on traditional and alternate dispute resolution practices in Nepal, the paper introduces TAF’s approach to its community mediation programming in Nepal and examines TAF’s understanding and usage of the phrase ‘social harmony’.
Both authors work in the TAF Nepal office where Preeti Thapa is Senior Program Officer and Mukesh Khanal is Program Officer.
Labels: community mediation, harmony, JSRP, Justice and Security Research Program, London School of Economics, LSE, mediation, Mukesh Khanal, Preeti Thapa, social harmony, TAF, The Asia Foundation
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