User:Raj Kumar Dhungana

Raj Kumar Dhungana, PhD is well known author/editor and educationist with over a decade long experience in Save the Children, UNICEF and UN Regional Center for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific. He contributed to integrating peace, human rights, civics and disarmament related lessons in Nepal’s national curriculum, textbooks and teacher training materials. Additionally, he was involved in integrating peace education in the national curriculum of schools in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He served as a co-convener of the Peace Education Commission, International Peace Research Association 2016-2018. He is active in peace research and teaching in Kathmandu University School of Education and working in Norwegian Embassy in Kathmandu. He is interested in promoting peace, justice and good governance.

Publications: 1. Carter, C., Dhungana, R.K. (Ed.), (2023). Educating for Peace through Countering Violence: Strategies inCurriculum and Instruction. Routledge (in press). Educating for Peace through Countering Violence | Strategies in Curric (taylorfrancis.com) 2. Dhungana, R. K. (2022). ‘Othering’and Violence in School: A Barrier to Sustain Peace in Nepal. Peace and Conflict Studies, 28(2), 1. 3. Acharya, K. K., Dhungana, R. K., & Guragain, H. P. (2022). The Position of Marginalized Groups in the Elite Captured Local Level Planning Process in Nepal. Nepal Public Policy Review, 2, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.3126/nppr.v2i1.48394 4. Dhungana, R. K. (2021). Peace education initiative in Nepal: Redressing the value of ‘celebrating diversity’. Journal of contemporary issues of education. https://doi.org/10.20355/jcie29434 5. Dhungana, R. K.; Acharya, K. K. Local Government’s Tax Practices From A Cooperative Federalism Perspective. Nep. Pub. Pol. Rev. 2021, 1, 157-178. https://doi.org/10.3126/nppr.v1i1.43440 6. Dhungana, R. K. (2020). Ethnography of School Violence: A Cultural Perspective. Journal of Education and Research, 10(2), 125–126. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v10i2.32725 7. Dhungana, R. K. (2020). Paradoxes of Quality Education in South Asia. Corridors of Knowledge for Peace and Development. Pakistan. 8. Dhungana, R. K., & Pfefferle, A. (2016). Challenging Cocacolisation of Rural Nepali Market: The Role of Education. Journal of Education and Research, 31-48. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v5i0.15729 9. Dhungana, R. K., & Yamphu, I. M. R. (2016). Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Nepal: Exploring Indigenous Research Procedures in Shamanism | Journal of Indigenous Social Development (ucalgary.ca) 10. Dhungana, R. (2014). Nepali Hindu women's thorny path to liberation. Journal of Education and Research, 4(1), 39-57. https://doi.org/10.3126/jer.v4i1.10013 11. Thapa, M., Dhungana, R. K., Mahalingam, B., & Conilleau, J. (2010). Peace by piece: Mainstreaming peace education in South Asia. Learning and recommendations from Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, 1-38.