HELSINKI, 30 November 2007, Crisis Management Initiative CMI has published the report "An Inclusive Peace process in Nepal and the Role of the EU", which presents recommendations for the EU and Member States on how best to support and promote the quality of the national peace process in Nepal. The report is an analysis of the inclusiveness of the Nepalese peace process, and it presents recommendations for the EU and Member States on how best to support and promote the quality of the national peace process in Nepal. The report will be launched alongside with International Alert's paper: "Peacebuilding in Eastern DRC: Improving EU support for economic recovery". The findings of the two reports will be discussed in a roundtable event: "How Can the EU Improve its Support to Peacebuilding Processes" on 5 December 2007 in Brussels. The event will gather together participants from the EC and civil society in Europe. Executive Summary In supporting sustainable peace and enhancing long-term and coherent peace-building, Crisis Management Initiative advocates for conflict sensitive policy and decision-making procedures. In the field of peacebuilding, conflict sensitivity can be understood as a tool to be used to ensure and to promote the quality of national peace processes. This work is an on-going, self-reflective process and includes: advocating for the importance of conflict sensitivity of all actors, including international, national and local, when working in conditions of unsustainable peace. This is pivotal in order to understand that every action has an impact on the local context and that preserving national peace should always be the first priority of every action. facilitating the co-operation and communication between different stakeholders working in conflict-prone and conflict-affected situations. It is crucial to have common policies and practices in order to minimise the negative and maximise the positive impacts of each action. enhancing the inclusion of local civil society and excluded groups in recruiting and choosing local partners in order to not to create local tensions. developing a conflict analysis tool to ensure the conflict sensitivity of CMI's own projects in their planning, implementation and evaluation. Against
this background and to promote a strategic and synergistic approach to
peace-building in Nepal, a research on the inclusiveness of the peace process
in Nepal was carried out. The project was conducted at two levels. First
the issue of inclusion was discussed separately at policy and
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Crisis Management Initiative 2007
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