The end of a decade old Maoist insurgency was marked by the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Act (CPA) which ushered in a ‘post conflict era’ in Nepal ( Baniya et al, 2017). Power in Nepal has consistently been allocated according to class, religion, ethnicity and gender ( Neelakantan et al, 2016).Įxclusion of and discrimination against almost all of Nepal’s groups, other than the Hindu upper class, from legal and political structures has been at the core of all three of Nepal’s conflicts and associated “People’s Movements” (1950, 1990, and 2006) ( Anderson, 2017 Bell, 2017).ĭuring the Civil war (1996-2006) the Maoist adopted the grievances of the individual groups and transformed them into collective grievances against the regime, successfully recruiting marginalized groups to their cause and fighting forces ( Anderson, 2017 Bell, 2017). It is home to 125 different caste or ethnic groups that speak 123 recognized languages, follow at least 10 different religions and live in three distinctive ecological zones ( Baniya et al, 2017). Nepal is a diverse country with numerous indigenous groups and minorities.

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