A prominent expert on Nepal’s security and foreign relations, Senior Fellow Jaya Acharya served as a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter to Prime Minister G. P. Koirala during 1991–2005. Beyond considering the Maoists—their base of support and reasons for choosing peace—Acharya will discuss the diplomatic approaches used to bring Nepal’s warring parties to peace negotiations.

In the early 1990s, Acharya was Nepal’s permanent representative to the UN, vice chairman of the UN Disarmament Committee, and vice chairman of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid. Acharya has also been a fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs and a recipient of a Fulbright grant. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Georgetown University and presently serves as executive chairman of Kathmandu’s Center for Democracy and Development.

Speakers

• Jaya Acharya
  Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace
• Ginny Bouvier, Moderator
  U.S. Institute of Peace

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