Proceedings and Paper Abstracts of the First Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference, Nepal Study Center, Madison, October 19, 2006

Abstract

Nepal Study Center conducted its first annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference at the University of Wisconsin’s pre-conference venue of the 35th South Asian Conference on October 19, 2006. Of the 42 abstracts submitted initially, 22 papers made it to the final program. These papers were organized into 7 panels: Health, Gender, and Trafficking; Environment, Education and Democratization; Resource Conservation; Politics, Democracy and Conflict I and II; Development and Poverty Alleviation. Judging from the survey report and feedback comments, the conference was productive and a big success. This special issue of the Himalayan Journal of Development and Democracy puts together the proceedings of the conference and abstracts of the paper presented at the conference.