Welcome
to the Website of the IPPNW South Asian Regional Conference in
Kathmandu, Nepal.
IPPNW physicians, medical students and the civil society leaders from
the South Asia region will meet this April, as well as the two IPPNW
co-presidents.
During
the conference, the students have planned a one-day student
conference of their own and the South Asia Team for
Peace and Dialogue has planned a dialogue training and
dialogue with the medical students and the decision makers to
understand the conflict in South Asia and to presurrise the
stakeholders to resolve the crisis through peaceful means. For a
detailed descriptrion, see the text below the program of the
Conference. We look forward to seeing you in Kathmandu...
Program:
April
27th: Dialogue training of the students during the day and
preconference meeting in the evening
April
28th: Dialogue with the decision makers and medical students
Student
conference during the daytime
Inauguration -
evening
April
29th: The scientific session and the business meeting
April
30th: National conference of PSR-Nepal, city tour for the foreign
delegates
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South Asia Team for Peace and Dialogue
Dialogue training and dialogues with the medical students and the
decision makers
27-28th of April, 2006, Kathmandu, Nepal
South Asia is taken
as one of the worst conflict-stricken regions in the world and that is
not wrong. We have historical rivalry between India and Pakistan and an entrenched
dispute that is yet to be resolved between them. Both of them have
nuclear weapons after 1998 and accuse each other for supporting
terrorism and promoting conflict in the region. The traditional power
equation is now affected by the role of US and the international
community. The recent nuclear deal between the US and India could even make the
situation worse in terms of regional peace and amity. Sri-Lanka
survives a long civil war which doesn't seem to be over soon as the
possibilities of peace establishment are being dismantled by the
conflicting parties. Nepal
has now seen ten years of bloody violence and is waiting for the
peaceful solution to the armed conflict. Bhutan is yet to move along
the road of democracy while it also hasn't given priority to solve the
one and half decade long refugee crisis. Bangladesh is ruined by the
political crisis if not by the armed violence. Demands for establishing
democratic rule are now vocal in Maldives too.
It can be concluded that all the seven countries of South Asia region are affected by violent
conflicts or violation of human rights and peace is a far-fetched
dream. With a sense of urgency to resolve the conflict issues of south Asia, the medical students of this region have
designed a team called the South
Asian Team for Peace and Dialogue. The aim of this team is to engage
medical students and the decision makers in dialogues and try to
convince them towards the resolution of conflicts through peaceful
means.
Besides, talking about the nuclear disarmament, this
team also talks about the peace and human rights issues in general.
The team is planning to get started this April during
the SA regional conference of IPPNW.
Expected participants for training:
15 (only selected students can sit in the training with proportional
representation from all of the countries)
Program schedule:
1. Dialogue training - 27th of April, 2006.
2. Dialogues with the leaders of civil society and the
decision makers - same day.
3. Further dialogue training and dialogues with the
medical students (around 100) - 28th of April
4. Discussion about future cooperation and
communications
5. Planning and discussion on delegation to Sri-Lanka
(tentatively this July).
6. Planning on before and after Helsinki
This is the summary of the program. As we have limited
seats available, please secure your seat as soon as possible. Although
this is a dynamic team, those who will get training will be the members
of the team for the initial period.
Please email back to me as soon as possible,
Khagendra Dahal
International Student Representative |
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