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The Remake of a StatePost-conflict reconstruction and development need to be interwoven withreconciliation, rehabilitation, reintegration and recovery to ensure thatdevelopment can minimise the wound of conflict, promote cooperationand rebuild society. Similarly, post-conflict development has to contributeto achieving ‘human security’. The UN Human Development Report 1994defines human security as “safety from such chronic threats as hunger,disease and repression and protection from sudden and hurtful disruptionsin the patterns of daily lives” (UNDP 1994). Human security approach ofdevelopment needs to shift from conventional development approachadapted by Nepal since the inception of period development plan in 1951,which only focuses on poverty reduction, ignoring the conflict and securityimplications (Upreti 2006a).Linking security-human rights-peace and development must be the guidingframework for the post-conflict development in Nepal. Post-conflictdevelopment need to reduce corruption, facilitate effective governanceand promote environmentally sound, socially equitable, economicallyrobust sustainable development that requires re-evaluation of theappropriateness of the existing policies, strategies, legal and regulatoryframeworks and institutional arrangements, and adjust accordingly.Figure 7.1 Interconnected components of the development orientedpost-conflict state buildingSource: Designed by the authorFigure 7.1 shows that post-conflict development policy has to be interlinkedwith NSP, international relation/foreign policy, economic policy and other131