Nepal Dialogues is an initiative to promote a culture of dialogue in Nepal by strengthening capacities and resources related to the field. It is led by the Nepal Forum for Restorative Justice (NFRJ)
Find more about the Nepal Forum at www.nepalrestorativejustice.org,
Nepal Dialogues has two aims:
First, it hosts the Dialogue Resource Center, also physically located at the NFRJ office.
Second, the website hosts news, events, and materials related to the dialogues in Nepal
Nepal Forum for Restorative Justice (NFRJ) is a non-governmental and non-profit organization working in the fields of restorative justice, dialogue, and peacebuilding in Nepal. It began as a loose forum in 2014 and was formally institutionalized in 2017. Since then, it has been involved in establishing restorative justice values and programs in the formal and community systems and furthering the global movement of restorative justice.
NFRJ’s works include providing workshops on restorative justices, conducting programs for knowledge sharing between stakeholders involved in fields of Dialogue and peacebuilding in Nepal and providing translation services for knowledge products on issues related to justice, Dialogue, and peacebuilding. In the past, NFRJ has successfully organized three international conferences and different workshops on restorative justice. The organization ran Nepal Dialogue initiative in 2019 and has also produced official Nepali translation of the United Nations Handbook of Restorative Justice Programmes (2020), translated Nepali versions of UN Basic Principles of Restorative Justice in Criminal Matters (2002).
Welcome to Nepal Dialogues
I have spent over twenty years in rooms where people who disagree, sometimes bitterly, sit down and talk anyway. Community members and perpetrators after the armed conflict. Youth leaders and senior policymakers after the protests of recent years. Victims of violence who have waited decades for an acknowledgment that never came. What I have learned from these rooms is simple: Nepal does not have a shortage of grievances. It has a shortage of structured spaces to work through them.
That gap is what this platform is built to close. Since 2019, Nepal Dialogues has convened various events and been a part of national summits bringing together Nobel Peace Laureates, Ramon Magsaysay Awardees, and Nepali practitioners and policymakers, not for ceremony, but to build a working culture of dialogue in this country. The Dialogue Resource Center exists so that a facilitator in Nepalgunj or Jhapa has the same tools as one in Kathmandu. The Nepal Dialogue Collective exists so that this work does not depend on any one organization or person to continue.
If you are here because you are grieving something Nepal has not yet reckoned with, or because you are trying to build the process that lets it, this platform is for you.
Ram Tiwari
Chairperson, Nepal Forum for Restorative Justice
Coordinator, Nepal Dialogue