Conflict-free society is only imagination: Home Minister Lekhak

Kathmandu, Aug 24: Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has said that a conflict-free society is merely an imagination.
Inaugurating a seminar titled ‘Contemporary Challenges to Peace Environment in Nepal’ organised here today, Home Minister Lekhak expressed the view, “If someone says there is a conflict-free society, it is only imagination, not a reality. Where there is conflict, there is a solution. We have to understand conflict in a right way. Compromise is also the management of conflict.”

He argued that they have been receiving signal that the division of powers by the constitution has invited conflict in the country.

“Conflict has taken place among local levels about distribution of natural means and resources as well as border issues. The surfaced conflict and possible conflict should be managed”, mentioned the Home Minister.

Home Minister Lekhak shared that nature of conflict is different across the world and conflict is universal, adding conflict exist until society exists.

He said, “The armed conflict that took place in the country ended on November 21, 2006. The society of violence was transformed into that of peace.”

Constitution is a tool for measuring how much instability, uncertainty and conflict the country had to go through and the constitution promulgated in 2015 is the seventh constitution of Nepal, he opined.