This annual governance analysis (the latest in GMC Nepal’s multi-year series tracking governance conflicts and cooperation in federal Nepal) examines the country’s contemporary governance landscape through a peace-and-conflict lens. It positions the 2025 Gen-Z protest as the most visible and digitally amplified expression of deep-rooted governance failures that have accumulated over nearly two decades. It analyzes how systemic deficits in accountability, constitutional implementation, corruption, and structural inequality have sustained cycles of instability in Nepal.
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Prakash Bhattarai, PhD
Mr. Anish Khatri
Ms. Nishu Ratna Bastakoti
Ms. Samiksha Neupane
Ms. Saurabhi Subedi
Mr. Dipin Subedi
