In my long journey as public servant of Nepal, I kept on pondering on questions like: Why are state and government insufficiently responsive towards the conflicts in our society? Why don’t we have a contract between state and citizens engaging them in meaningful discourses to resolve the emerg-ing conflicts and which could address the underlying causes behind them? Is it the issue of gaps in capacity of actors (supply side), or, expectation management (demand side), or, understanding the context for proper responses? Why is it that, despite all the peacebuilding and statebuilding efforts of partner countries and donor agencies, based on sound theo-rizing and empirical studies, Nepal and many other countries alike could not build strong and resilient institutions to deal with development dilemmas and conflicts? Why have we gradually slipped into more divided and conflict/violence prone societies?
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