Rethink Fragility

Preeti Thapa has led community justice and conflict transformation programs in her native Nepal for about sixteen years, working with the Asia Foundation. That experience spans an extraordinarily turbulent period -- the tail end of the Maoist insurgency, a drawn-out and highly contentious transition to multi-party politics, a transformative new constitution, and the 2014-15 earthquake. As a consequence we get into many of the central dilemmas of conflict transformation work. Structural and community-level issues versus the national political drama that captures the international imagination. Informal versus formal mechanisms in meeting aspirations for justice. Progressive social agendas versus working “with the grain”. And not least of all — the experience of women, and women from the global South specifically, in fields that are all too often male-dominated and hierarchical. --- Show notes: [02:50] Community mediation as a process for conflict transformation at the community level. [06:55] The “co-facil