ICPD was established in Nepal in 2002 with the belief that Nepal's prevailing armed-conflict could only be resolved through dialogue among the stakeholders. With commitment to common concern for social harmony and development by promoting peace building processes through dialogue methods, ICPD has been engaged in organizing interaction and capacity development at various levels of stakeholders from community to national and international levels among political and civil society leaders
Institute for
Conflict Management Peace and Development (ICPD) was established in Kathmandu
in November 2002 by a group of professionals with an extensive exposure and experience in the field at both national and
international level. They felt the
need to offer professional support in conflict transformation and peace building
while confronting a tri-polar national conflict that took place in Nepal in
October 2002 in the midst of armed-conflict caused by Maoist insurrection. ICPD is a
self-help, autonomous, non-profit making and non-governmental organization
committed to common concern for social harmony and development by promoting
peace building processes through dialogue methods in conflict transformation,
human rights, good governance, peace and development both within Nepal and
abroad. It works directly through its members and/or indirectly through its
partners in responding to both structural and proximate causes of conflict at
the grass-roots, national and international levels. Realizing the fact that the
structural and proximate causes of conflict have not only the vertical relation
but also a circular one as the conflict in one can always fuel in the other,
ICPD believes that conflict transformation and peacebuilding task has to be
done simultaneously on both levels by taking them as the two sides of a single
conflict-coin, requiring the task performance at multi-track levels.
