Oliver Housden

Oliver Housden conducted research on ethnic political violence in Nepal for the <a href=http://www.rusi.org/>Royal United Services Institute</a> in January-March 2010

Nepal: ethnic lock, federal key, national door

A lengthy political crisis in Nepal has exposed deep divisions over the country’s future, in which matters of identity - national, ethnic, caste, class - are to the fore. A new federal constitution is intended to address these. The obstacles in its way could be removed by rethinking the “identitar

By Oliver Housden

/ 16 Jul 2010