Agreement between the GoN and Kirant Janawadi Workers Party

• Country/entity

  Nepal
  
• Region

  Asia and Pacific
  
• Agreement name

  Agreement between the GoN and Kirant Janawadi Workers Party
• Date

  12 Nov 2009
• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed
• Interim arrangement

  Yes
• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/local conflict ( Nepalese Insurgency (1996 - 2006) )
• Stage

  Implementation/renegotiation
• Conflict nature

  Government
• Peace process

  Nepal related-local processes
• Parties

  Suman Wantawa Adihang, Convener
  Pampha Kiranti, Member
  Heet Bahadur Kepchhaki, Member
  Shiv Fago, Member
  Dr. J.B. Tamang, Member
  Rakam Chemjong, Talks Team Convener and Minister, Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction
• Third parties

  -
• Description

  This agreement brings the Kirant Janawadi Workers Party into the formal negotiation process and agrees to hold discussion on the demands raised bythe Kirant Janawadi Workers Party.

• Agreement document

  NP_091114_GoN and Kirant Janawadi Workers Party.pdf | Download PDF

Local agreement properties

• Process type

  Formal structured process
  
• Rationale

  Nepal’s national peace process was anchored in the Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA). The CPA, unlike multiple other peace accords, committed to wide-ranging guarantees to make the country ‘inclusive’ and ‘restructure the state’. The Interim Constitution that succeeded the CPA, specified multiple pathways to inclusion, comprising of, secularism, proportionate representation in state organs, adapting to a mixed-electoral system with proportional representation built in, and cultural recognition among others. Given the broad guarantees, all the movements succeeding the CPA, framed their movements around greater guarantees for inclusion and ‘state restructuring’. Thus, the demands of all the movements, and the resulting agreements between these groups and the governments, can be said to be a part of the national peace process.
• Is there a documented link to a national peace process?

  Yes
• Link to national process: articulated rationale

  Their demand was centred on creation of creation of a Kirat state in eastern Nepal, which was buoyed by the broad commitment to state restructuring in the CPA. The peace agreement in this database does not list their 14-point demand, so its difficult hard to recheck if the agreement committed to this state.
• Name of Locale

  Eastern Nepal
• Nature Of Locale

  Region
• GPS Lat/Long (DD)

  26.808517, 87.283661
• Participant type

  Central state actor
  Local armed group
  
• Mediator, facilitator or similar

  No mention of mediator or similar

Local issues

Agreement between the GoN and Kirant Janawadi Workers Party

Agreement concluded on November 14, 2009

1. The Kirant Janawadi Workers Party presented 14-point demands and discussions were held on their demands.

2. Since the Kirant Janawadi Workers Party joined the negotiation process for the establishment of peace, none of its leaders and activists shall be arrested and the Kirant Janawadi Workers Party shall not carry out any activities that might affect the talks, including use and display of weapons, during the period of negotiations.

3. Discussion shall be held on the political demands of the Kirant Janawadi Workers Party and weapons management [1].

Suman Wantawa Adihang, Convener

Pampha Kiranti, Member

Heet Bahadur Kepchhaki, Member

Shiv Fago, Member

Dr. J.B. Tamang, Member

Rakam Chemjong, Talks Team Convener and Minister, Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction

1. Following the decision of the meeting of the Government of Nepal (Council of Ministers), held on December 9, 2009, ‘to be done as per the decision of the committee through discussion of the Council of Ministers, Political Committee’, in accordance with the decision of the said Committee upon discussions, the words ‘weapons management’ in the third point were removed.