As Nepal emerges from 10 years of civil strife, many wonder if there will ever be an end to the cycle of violence, death and retaliation.
Service for Peace, a local non-governmental organization with branches in over 100 nations, claims according to its website that it can bring “diverse groups together in service in order to cross barriers of race, religion, class, creed or national origin, and address urgent social needs.”
Two days before the latest strikes began, SFP held a “Reconciliation Picnic” in Kathmandu which drew wide media coverage. This time the ethnic divide was between the Madhesis and the Pahadis, the hill people. More...
Dr. Ram Joshi of the Nepali Congress (L) and Dr. Mahanth Thakur, president of the Terai Madhesh Loktantrick Party, embrace publicly to set an example of healing and forgiving past resentments between Nepal’s Pahadi and Madhesi ethnic groups at a “Reconciliation Picnic” in Kathmandu, March 1, 2009. (UPI Photo/R. Kittel) 
