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Reconstruction and developmentthe powerful politicians. Thus, it failed to reach remote areas, slums andshanties. It served the political and economic interests of the politicians,development bureaucrats and local elites.Box 7.1 Issues relevant to post-conflict development in the CPA• Promulgate the political system that fully comprehends with the concepts ofuniversally adopted principles of fundamental human rights, multiparty competitivedemocratic system, sovereign rights inherent in the people and supremacy of thecitizens, constitutional balance and control, rule of law, social justice and equality,independent judiciary, periodic elections, monitoring by the civil society, completepress freedom, right to information of the citizens, transparency and accountabilityof the activities of the political parties, people’s participation, fair, able anduncorrupted administrative mechanism.• End the existing centralised and unitary state system and restructure it into aninclusive, democratic progressive system to address various problems includingthat of women, Dalit, indigenous community, Madhesi, oppressed, ignored andminority communities and backward regions by ending the prevailing class, ethnic,linguistic, gender, cultural, religious and regional discrimination.• End all forms of feudalism and prepare and implement a minimum commonprogramme of socio-economic transformation on mutual understanding.• End feudal land ownership and formulate the policies for scientific land reforms.• Adopt policies for protection and promotion of national industries and resources.• Adopt policies for establishment of civil rights in education, health, shelter,employment and food security.• Adopt policies to provide land and socio-economic security to backward groups likelandless, bonded labourers, tillers, Haruwa, Charuwa and other such groups, whichare socio-economically backward. Adopt policies to take strict actions against thepeople who have worked in government positions and have amassed huge amountof properties through corruption.• Prepare a common development concept that will help in socio-economictransformation of the country and will also assist in ensuring the country’s economicprosperity in a short period of time.• Follow policies ascertaining the professional rights of workers and increaseinvestment on sectors like promoting industries, trade and export and increaseemployment and income generating opportunities.Source: Adapted from Upreti (2009) based on CPA 2006.Economic and social stability and human security are preconditions forachieving sustainable peace where post-conflict development interventionscould play crucial role through immediate, short, medium and long-termstrategy. It has to establish relationship between development, postconflictrecovery and peace building.134