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Nepal has gone through the 10 years long armed conflict launched by the Communist Party of
Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M) from March 1996 to November 2006, has inflicted some horrendous cases of
traumatic experience. In statistical terms, around 17,000 were killed, 1500 disappeared, 75,000
injured and 250,000 internally displaced. And such conflict comes to the end in 2006 with the peace
process of Nepal started on 16 June 2006 when the seven party alliance and CPN-M signed the eight
point Agreement agrees to draft the interim constitution and requested the UN to monitor the election
and the peace process. After the successful revolution in 2006 that culminated in the end of the twocentury long monarchy and signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) with democratic
parties. The comprehensive peace accord signed between to GON of Nepal and CPN-M on 21
November 2006, which formerly brought the decade long armed conflict into an end.
The prospects for peace and democracy-building in Nepal looked very promising in April
2006 after the popular movement Jana Andolan II brought down the royal regime through mass
protest and political action. The most significant break with the past, symbolically and politically, was
the resolution adopted by the interim parliament to abolish the 240-year-old Hindu monarchy and
create a federal democratic republic. There remains the question, though, as to whether Nepal will
become fully democratic given that the political parties are engaged in a struggle for power.
After the promulgation of the Interim constitution the constitution assembly's election was held
on 28 may 2008. On15Jan2011 UNMIN left Nepal and the special committee took responsibility of
monitoring of Maoist combats the government of Nepal Political Parties, National and international
Stakeholder and donor community have Been working together for peace building in Nepal, Since the
Ten years deadly conflict has been ended and there is a need for peace, for that the government of
Nepal, Ministry of Peace and Reconstruction has formed local peace committee in every district in 2nd
Bhadra 2064 B.S. with the aim for peace building. LPC is an independent self governing, inclusive
and balanced organization which has a very crucial role to identify and implement various logical and
equity based solution in this peace process. LPC includes political parties, civil society, local
organizations, human right activists, conflict affected, business man, indigenous group and women
who placed an important role in peace building at district and VDC level.
Peace building has three phases,
- Prior to outbreak of violence: The preventing phase aiming at preventing armed
conflict.
- At the time of armed conflict: The peace making phase aiming to end the arm
conflict and reach a peace agreement.
- After the end of armed conflict: The post conflict peace building phase or post
settlement phase.
Since, armed conflict has been ended, so the concern of the study will be on the role of LPC in
post conflict peace building and to prevent another outbreak of violence and settle the disputes
at local level in society.

Thus formed local peace committee is composed of Political parties, civil, society, conflict
affected personal and local organizations representatives. Such formed local peace committee play a
vital role for the building of peace in the local areas.
The terms of References and it's preamble Provides the clear mandate for the local peace
committee to work in the respective area of their concern.
To Create an environment conducive for a just system in a transitional period through
restoration of sustainable peace by resolving the remnants of conflict at the local level and
systematically promoting the processer of peace and reconstruction through mutual goodwill
and unity to arrest the concern and complaints of local stakeholder for democratic values and
belief and a sustainable peace.
As Clearly mentioned in the preamble of TOR, the Peace Building is done through to Mutual
goodwill and unify which will concern and complaints of local stakeholders,. When there is unity
among the local stakeholder then such peace building will fruitful.

Statement of the problem

Though the peace process of Nepal won focally ended, but the prolonged transition can't
fulfill the promise that was made during peace negotiation. It has been 17 years since election of local
bodies has been held. The political parties' carders are forming an intra party mechanism to solve the
problem that arises in the local level. So in the transition phase and in the absence of such local
representative bodies LPCS Should have been the source of strength to take the responsibility of
peace building as it is the composition of intraparty and civil and social organizations. Such formation
of the LPCS by the active involvement of civil society, political parties and the local authorities so my
research will concern about how people of Burtibang VDC Perceive about the effectiveness of the
LPC of Formed in their VDC.

Objective of the Study

The General objective of the study is to find the effectiveness of LPCs. However, the specific
objectives are:

To study the structure and function of LPC in Burtibang VDC.

To explore the effectiveness and acceptance of LPC in society since its

establishment.

To analyze the peace building initiatives by LPC.

To analyze if there has been created the environment of trust and positive relationship
among the concerned stake holders

Research questions

What changes LPC has brought on the life of local people?

What type of conflict do LPC used to solve and how?
What impact LPC has made on local people or what do people perceive about work of
LPC?
How LPC is working to create societal change and in rehabilitation of conflict
victims?
What is the effort of LPC in maintaining sustainable peace and development?
What is the effort of LPC in creating rule of law?
How do LPC work to build trust and reconcile among stake holders?

Conceptual Framework
This study is supposed to be influenced by various concepts of many scholars. There is no
specific concept which will guide through the entire process. My research is specifically based on
John Paul Leadarach "Bottom up approach of Conflict transformation" and if necessary this
researcher will include the relevant theories in the area of study.

Significance of the Study:

This research provides a significant contribution mainly in two areas of concern. Firstly, this
research will help to know the composition of LPC In Burtibang VDC of Baglung district and
secondary this research will help to know the appropriateness of the works done by the LPC in the
VDC. Mostly this research will be fruitful for other researcher to know about the process of peace
building at the local level or in concerned VDC.

Literature review.
Peace building is the process of restoring normal relation between not only the warring
parties, but also communities that are severely disturbed by armed conflict. It requires the
reconciliation of differences, apology and forgiveness of a past harm and the establishment of a
cooperative relationship that used to exist, Peace dialogue is extremely important in the peace
process. Galtung argues that peace dialogues explore diagnosis, prognosis and therapy together,
avoiding linearity and maintaining back and forth discussion focusing on what went wrong in the past
and what could have been done (Galtung 2000a and b, 2004a and b).achievement of viable and
lasting peace is only possible when capacity of local people is utilized and complemented with the
effort of government, human rights organizations, media and other peace actors (Upreti 2006).
Asian Resource Foundation and Asian Muslim Action Burece W. Dayton in his Book edited by
Bruce W Dyatom and Louis Kniesbern, Conflict Transformation and Peace Building: Moving from
violence to sustainable peace have argued that. Intermediates as the deciding factor for the peace
building in the intra state's conflict, which will provide a forum in which both conflicting parties
interact and this intermediate can help to identify option for the settlement of the conflict.
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The role and impacts of intermediates is widely studies in the field of conflict
management, particularly in a demotic context where intermediaries have been shown
to play a central role n resolving Labor-Management disputers, Public policy
controversies community disputes and interpersonal conflict of all kinds (Moore).
Significant but less attention has been paid to the role of intermediaries in international
on conflict prevention and resolution with the work that has been done focusing
mainly on official State intervention via peacekeeping mission, shuttle diplomacy and
other form of state to state negotiation during fimes of violence (Wissingar 1994,
Prince 1992, Holbrooke 1999). Still less attention has been devoted to the role of
intermediaries in violent, intrastate conflict, where one of the parties is a non state
actors (Hume 1994: regan 2002)
Similarly Spier, C. in his book South Africa's National Peace Accord: Its structure and
function, Have argued that the three layer of peace committee in south Africa were
accountable to the multiparty regional peace committee and ultimately to the National peace
committees through the national peace secretariat which shows how local bodies have their
important role in peace building of the whole Nation.
The apartheid system in South Africa was formalized in 1948. It was ended through
negotiation between 1990 and 1993 between the ruling national party, the African
National congress and other Political organizations following the successful, national
elections of 1994. In 1991, the National Peace accord of 1991 created vertical three
layer peace committees local ace committees, regional peace committers and national
peace committee. Local peace committees were accountable to the multiparty regional
peace committees and ultimately to the National peace committee through the national
peace secretarial (Odendaal,2010:35). the overall objective of the NPA won to prevent
political violence, political parties and organization, had to condemn violence publicly,
Prevent members from promoting or using any form of violence, cooperate with the
authorities to prevent violence at political events and assist the police in investigating
and apprehending violations (Spies, 2002:22).
The peace are effective in the countries like south Africa., Moreover, many research
have been conducted in many countries for the role and effectiveness of LPCS But researcher
hadn't found any research conducted on the effectiveness of LPCS In the Burtibang VDC of
Baglung district so the researcher find it fruitful in doing research in the field.

Research design
This research will be descriptive in design.The researcher will follow triangular
research methodology to conduct this research. Questionnaire, interview and secondary data
collection from the field will be used as the date collection tools.

Research site selection:Researcher will conduct his research in Burtibang VDC of Baglung which is one of the most
conflate affected place in western development regions as department of Conflict Peace and
Development studies has suggested to conduct the research

Limitation of the Study

This study will be limited in the specific area and so the findings might not be generalized
with other areas. Moreover this research project is assigned by the department of conflict, peace and
development studies so it is only for the academic purpose Although this research project makes use
of significance concept developed in the field of peace building and local participation. It doesn't
offer comprehensive analysis of peace building and local participation in general further this study
borrows the ideas from other realms of the study that are appropriate with the title of my research
being based only on one of the VDC of Baglung district i.e. Burtibang.

Ethical issues
During the field study and research report preparation period, many ethical issues may arise.
The researcher would try best to avoid the ethical sensitiveness and biasness. Besides, all the research
respondents will be informed fully about purpose and possible uses of the research. Confidentiality of
the respondents will be fully respected. The researcher will follow Do not Harm and Conflict
Sensitivity approaches to avoid certain ethical issues.

Questionnaire
1. Do you know about LPC?
A: Yes
B: No
2. Do you know about the aim of LPC?
A: Yes
B: No
3. Have you feel any differences in the society before and after the establishment of LPC in
your VDC?
A: Yes
B: No
4. In your view is it working efficiently in your locality?
A: Yes
B: No
5. Have you got any aids or relief from the LPC?

C: Not interested

A: Yes
B: No
6. Do you know about the role of political parties in the LPC?
A: Yes
B: No
7. How do you take the role of political parties in the LPC?
A: Yes

B: No

C: Not interested

References
Barash,D P(2002) Peace and Conflict Studies London: Sage Publication
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Comprehensive e peace Treaty

Jeong, H(2006) Peace building in Post Conflict Societies London: Thorogood Publishers
Paffenholz, T. (ed). (2011) civil society and peace building: A critical Assessment.
Spies, C. (2002), South Africas national peace Accord: Its structure and functions.
The Terms of Reference of Local Peace committees (5 February 2009)
http://www.peace. gov.np/index.php/vopi=179
Upreti, B R(2006) Armed conflict and peace process in Nepal