Dear friends,

Congratulations! It's my pleasure to announce that you are become a
global citizen. We believe that your dynamic engagement is help to
become a global citizen. And as we move toward the end of the year,
our entire team wants to reach out and let you know that we are
thinking about you.

Well, you are an inspirational example of the positive changes youth
can and are making in communities all around the world. Youth such
as you possess a unique ability to look at old problems in new ways.
Your energy & idealism propel you to take risks, to look beyond
obstacles, and to develop innovative solutions to urgent local
problems. We at Idea Action & Idea Forum would like to take this
opportunity to celebrate your success.

Many others members we will see in the upcoming day. These
involvement, suggestions, comments and experiences together are
always enriching. If you haven't completed your profile with photo
yet in ideaforum.org, this holiday is a right time. Similarly, post
more articles, appeal, events & conferences informations, making an
organization partnership and interact with members.

It a truth; we are in initial phrase and straggling a lot.

By the way, do you celebrate anything in your community during this
time of year?  It is very close to Christmas and so there is lots of
shopping, Christmas music (which I don't really like) and lights
everywhere!  My favorite part of the holiday is the great food and
wonderful time with family.  I really love my family and will eat a
big meal and celebrate with 10 wonderful people in my family.

Whatever you are doing this December, have a wonderful time and stay
true to your heart and spread love to your family and all those
around you.

Personally, I am so much grateful for getting in touch with me and
glad to your involvement for global citizen. All of my colleagues
here at Idea Action and Idea Forum join me in sending you our best
wishes for the end of 2006.  We all look forward to seeing and
working with you in the New Year.

Truly Yours

Shakti S. Ghimire
Founder and President

Idea Action
P. O. Box: 23929, Katmandu, Nepal
Ph: 00977-1-4352569
Fax: 00977-1-4361972
Email: info@... ,
Web: www.idea.org.np and www.ideaforum.org

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empowered by ICT. It connects the world, creating opportunities,
collaborate the people and is concerned to change their society and
the world. It provides forum for global people and organizations where
they can interact with each other, post articles, events information,
make partnership and so on. They can post their local and global
issues in Forum and Blog. Similarly, they can send e-cards on peace,
human rights, youth and other social issues. The web site has gained
recognition worldwide and earned reputation in a resourceful centre.
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A Peace Proposal

By Professor Dr Brian Cobb

The political landscape of Nepal looks extremely bleak these days.
The three factions, Monarch-Military, Maoists and Parties, are
seemingly inalterably wedded to incompatible demands. The Parties
and Maoists have reached an agreement of sorts, but it papers over
some very wide chasms and is totally at odds with the Monarch-
Military roadmap. But all 3 factions say they want peace and
multiparty democracy.

As Bill Clinton has said, in politics you have to take the facts as
they are, not as you wish they were. There are some hard realities
here, but some opportunities as well. No faction is going to get its
way 100 percent, but I believe there is a way that all can achieve
their major stated goals with a little compromise and creativity.
The status quo is unsustainable: killing, hatred, civil disorder,
economic decline, displaced people, and large scale human rights
violations. Too much blood has been shed, too many have suffered
anguish, grief, and injury. The rhetoric to date has been largely
polarizing, factional and intransigent. However, I believe there is
a solution if all factions will place principles and long term goals
ahead of strategy and a win/lose mentality. It is time to think
win/win and reunification.

Let's take the easy part first; to each faction I address one
question. If all three factions answer yes, there can be a
constitutional solution. If any faction answers no, the deal is off.

To the King: Will you agree to an earlier, negotiated date for a
full, free and fair parliamentary election under international
supervision under a bilateral cease fire?

To the Maoists: Will you forswear violence and intimidation, permit
the elections, and join the democratic process as candidates under
the 1990 Constitution, and disarm with UN assistance?

To the Parties: Will you participate in such an election and serve
in a democratically elected government?

If we have 3 yeses, Nepal can reestablish democratic governance and,
if desired, amend the constitution.  It is clear that His Majesty is
not going to accept a constituent assembly, but amendments could be
negotiated and accomplish the same things. To the voices of
negativity and obstructionism I ask, why not? Do you have a
feasible, specific plan that is better?

Now for the hard part. To end the military stalemate and establish
an enduring peace, we are going to have to be a bit creative, but
rigorously logical. We have to put the interests and well being of
the Nepali people first. The air is full of talk about putting the
Army under the control of the elected government, and perhaps
combining the Maoist and Royal Armies into one force. This will not
solve the nation's problems. To imagine that two of the world's
worst human rights violating militaries will somehow meld into a
coherent, harmonious whole is like mixing highly corrosive alkalis
and acids to produce neutral salts. It is nonsense, a recipe for an
exothermic reaction, violent and hot. Such an army would be a
breeding ground of intrigues, power struggles, coups d'état and
waste.
Nepal's only two neighboring countries are India and China. Both
have huge militaries and nuclear arms. To imagine that the RNA could
ever repel any attack, which seems most unlikely in any case, is
pure fantasy. And, as  the American President and former Army
General Dwight D Eisenhower said, "Every gun that is made, every
warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense,
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold
and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.
It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its
scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life
at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is
humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
Instead of such an army, I propose a three step transformation.
First, the RNA commanders, who have disgraced themselves and the
nation, should be relieved of their command and the Army placed
under UN supervision to act as a peacekeeping force, charged with
overseeing the disarmament of the Maoists and the elections.
Second, the RNA itself is disarmed and all lawful arms bearing
authority reposed in the police. Third, the RNA is transformed into
the Royal Peace Corps, to remain under His Majesty's supervision
with parliamentary accountability. Instead of 150,000-some idle,
potentially dangerous soldiers, the nation could use their energies
to build roads and other infrastructure, teach school, care for the
sick and otherwise contribute to the national reconciliation and
reconstruction. This would be active monarchy at its best, in the
tradition of the great King Ashoka.

As Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, reminded us: "The ultimate weakness of
violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing
it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.
Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the
lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the
hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely
increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence
multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already
devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can
do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that"

Of course, as with any compromise, no faction is going to get its
way on all points. However, this plan is reasonable,
straightforward, and accomplishes the stated major goals of all
factions. It is in everyone's best interest to show some
flexibility, good will and integrity for the sake of the nation.
It's time to become statesmen instead of politicians, principled and
transforming leaders instead of self-serving ideologues, and humane
advocates of peace, justice and development instead of perpetrators
of conflict. Principles come before goals, goals before means, and
means before results.

Let us hope and pray that Nepal fulfills the words of Isaiah, "…and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks, and nation shall not rise up against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more."

Hi Friends

Idea Action has launched south asian youth led ICT forum for youth
engagement and empowerment as well as Conflict Resolution.

Vist for more
www.southasiaonline.org

For our organization fundraising, our organization has made a agrement
with google. If you click google add means we can collect some fund
for our organization activities. So i request u to click several times
every day on google add.

Best Regards

Idea Action Team

Hi Friends

Idea Action has launched south asian youth led ICT forum for youth
engagement and empowerment as well as Conflict Resolution.

Vist for more
www.southasiaonline.org

For our organization fundraising, our organization has made a agrement
with google. If you click google add means we can collect some fund
for our organization activities. So i request u to click several times
every day on google add.

Best Regards

Idea Action Team

Dear friends

visit Idea Action website

www.idea.org.np

HI Alina,
Including your friends make a timetable to attend this workshop.

Regards

Shakti


Date: 10 December 2005

Subject: Invitation in  workshop on "Harnessing ICT Opportunities
for
People"

Dear Sir or Madam,

A strong commitment is needed from the Nepali development community
for
sustainable ICT4D initiatives, policies and practices. ICT4D
initiatives
implemented in Nepal would benefit immensely from being shared and
discussed in order to inform policies and practices.

In this context, SAP International, Bellanet Asia and SAP Nepal with
its
supporting organizations are pleased to invite you to an interactive
workshop entitled "Harnessing ICT Opportunities for People". You are
requested to join in an open discussion where we will be presenting a
case
of ICT4D in Nepal for vibrant discussion. The workshop will also
provide a
space to share experiences for mutual learning and support and to
build
strategic partnerships for the future.

Participants in this workshop will be representatives of bilateral
and
multi lateral donor organizations and INGOs interacting with ICT4D
experts
and policy makers along with NGOs from Kathmandu and from rural parts
of
Nepal.

Come join us on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, 11:00 am- 4 pm at SAP
Falcha,
Babar Mahal (Phone: 4223230/4223050) for an interactive and fun
filled
experience sharing day. If you need further information, please
contact
Ms.
Shikha Shrestha <sshrestha@...> who will be more than happy
to
share with you about this exciting experience sharing event.

Best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

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Dr. Rohit Kumar Nepali
Executive Director
SAP International

Dear Friends
Please visit this link for the article

http://www.idea.org.np/article-shaktiUNESCO.html

Thanks for your time

Best reagrds

shakti Ghimire

Dear friend,
Idea Action participant Ms. Alina Gurung(Board Member of Idea Action)
shares her personal experience about 4th International Youth Summer
School 2005.


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I'm extremely thankful to British Council for selecting Idea Action
providing scholarship for the great opportunity to participate
in "The International Youth Summer School 2005" in India. One can
always be ecstatic by remembering splendid times. Those six days at
the summer school has been fabulous.

At the very first day, the feeling of shyness and awkwardness was
lost as the Welcome speech was very interesting and friendly.
Shuffling of the seats among the participants created a different
environment and talking with new face and making friends began from
the very moment.


During different sessions, I got the opportunities to learn about
many new things and the sessions were never boring as we used to play
in between the sessions. As my theme was "Peace and Conflict
Resolution" I could know about the different problems and different
conflict around the world and how people are working to eradicate
those problems. This session inspired me to do social works and help
other people. During sessions, I came to know that many students were
working as Volunteers works. I had this concept that doing Volunteer
work is useless as we don't get any money, but now I've realized that
I was totally wrong.

During theme session and voices session, I could build up my
confidence and I learned about the presentation skills too.
Similarly, because of skill session, I can now make my own Puppet and
I'm confident that I can do a small Puppetry show and convey
different message to people. The message may be of HIV AIDS, safe
sex, use of condoms, eliminate prostitution, education is essential
for girls too etc.

I'm very glad that summer school provided us the forum to show our
culture and values among such a huge mass. I was so nervous thinking
about the Presentation but the whole environment over there made us
so comfortable that we could do our presentation nicely and
successfully. It was really surprising to know that people from other
countries were interested in our country's current situation.

During those six days, I came to know about different cultures of
people from other countries. I came to know about their living style,
their thinking style and could learn new things even when we were
just talking or eating. I had never travelled alone before but now
I'm confident that in future I can travel alone.

Summer School not only helped me to enhance my skills and confidence
but also changed my thinking style and my life so I feel that more
people from Nepal should get this opportunity in their life because
many people in our country hardly find such forum and chance of
exposure.

-----------------
Ms. Alina Gurung
Executive Member

For more Information visit www.idea.org.np

Dear Friends,
18th sep to 22 Sep 2005 i will be in Thailand, so if u have any quires
please email me. Otherwise you can contact Mr. Pradeep his number is
9841322527.

and other imp information is that, we have time table two diffrent
programme.

    1. Idea Action's study session  timetable on 25th Sep 2005, 10.00
AM to 5.00 PM in Kathmandu for it's members and staff. (Interaction
with members, capacity building programmes (Report & proposal writing
skills) as well as discussions on current issues & it's Strategy.

2.Youth roles & responsibilities to develop peace culture & promotion
human rights  in local Level.
  Peace rally, Interaction, culture   show, poem Competition, Signature
collection & awareness programme in out side of kathmandu on 12th OCT
2005.

hope all members are invlove in these programmes.

I am waiting your response,

Best regards
Shakti Ghimire

Dear Friend,
Gretting from New York,

I am enjoing in New York.
In 6th Aug i will be in UNESCO Human Rights cinference. I have time
table to return in Nepal on 15 th Aug.

Dear Alina,
What about your Musical programme, up date it.

Dear Pradeep note my number is 17184248167

And other friends
Please if you have any quires about Idea Actio or other official
information, please please , email me i will always online for your
kind assistence.

Cheers
shakti ghimire
Wiidside New York

welcome susmita, Alina and other two new friends divinenp and luxdrn

Thanks susmita it's to much for us.

Ms. Alina, How's you prepations about summer camp. Contact me if u
need any help.

hellow two new friends divinenp and luxdrn can i know about u? if u
hide your real name, i will delete you name. Coz it's forum for only
Idea Action family.

Rest of others are fine here, what's about u?

Cheers
Shakti Ghimire

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welcome susmita, Alina and other two new friends divinenp and luxdrn

Thanks susmita it's to much for us.

Ms. Alina, How's you prepations about summer camp. Contact me if u
need any help.

hellow two new friends divinenp and luxdrn can i know about u? if u
hide your real name, i will delete you name. Coz it's forum for only
Idea Action family.

Rest of others are fine here, what's about u?

Cheers
Shakti Ghimire