Post Conflict Settlement and Role of United Nations in Nepal

Conflict prevention in international politics stays as one of the primary goals of the United Nations. In the current setting, preventive initiatives go more than conventional peace talks to include a wide variety of U.N. departments dealing into a huge scope of fields like elimination of poverty, human rights, voting process and the establishment of liberal entities and the management of weaponeries. The UN has a significant responsibility in this initiative, helping in the stoppage of conflicts in international politics by tracking world political events and mitigation of potential issues before they get worse. The UN led by its Secretary-General and his colleague go about their activities concerned with diplomacy all over the world. All throughout the years UN has highlighted the significance of stopping conflicts in international politics in order that people can have an environment that is without any worries or doubts on safety. Conflict settlement in the case of Nepal is successful due to the presence of United Nations Missions in Nepal (UNMIN). The Nepalese peace agreement is quite unique and interesting from both constitutional and international legal perspectives. Just as the people’s movement in Nepal was quite unique in bringing down the royal regime through a peaceful, civilized, and disciplined movement, the peace agreement and the constitutional settlement reached are also quite unique. Unlike other peace agreements concluded in other parts of the world, the peace agreement in Nepal was not concluded between two warring or opposing sides or between a rebel movement and the government as such. Rather it was between two sides which had organised and led the people’s movement together. What has happened in Nepal is also quite unique from an international perspective. As stated by Ian Martin, the head of UNMIN, Nepal’s peace agreement was not an agreement that was imposed on the parties on an air force base in Ohio or another foreign military base; rather it was a fully Nepalese peace agreement that was negotiated between the principal Nepalese actors themselves. The UN was not a party to the negotiations but the UN representative was invited to sign the peace agreement as a witness.