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Chiranjibi Bhandari is a member of the faculty at the Department of Conflict, Peace and Development Studies, Tribhuvan University. He also works as training, monitoring and evaluation coordinator for the Combatants to Peacemakers Programme at Pro Public,Kathmandu. Between 2011 and 2013, he served at the Secretariat of Special Committee for Supervision, Integration and Reintegration of Maoist Army Combatants. He also worked as an expert for the Nepal Peace Trust Fund on cantonment management and rehabilitation of ex-combatants in 2013.

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Sudheer Sharma is Editor-in-Chief of Nepal’s largest daily, Kantipur. He was previously editor of Nepal, a weekly news magazine. He has worked as a reporter for Himal Khabarpatrika and Kathmandu Today, among others, and has also worked with the International Crisis Group. He has contributed to a number of books and is editor of Nepali Sena: Nagarik Niyantran ka Chunauti (Nepali Army: Challenges to Civilian Control - 2010).

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Aditya Adhikari is a writer and consultant based in Kathmandu. He is the author of The Bullet and the Ballot Box: The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution (2014). He has consulted for various organisations including the UN, the World Bank and The Asia Foundation.

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Accord Issue 26: Nepal

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