Psychological barriers, namely differing political, socio-economic and cultural settings of political parties and their leaders, have created major problems in Nepal's peace process. Maoists have grown more powerful politically with the support of industrial workers, rural peasants and homeless and landless people. Even in Kathmandu, rickshaw pullers, cart-pullers, sweepers and other wage-earning people strongly support Maoists. Contrarily, educated and well-clad Nepali Congress and UML political activists disdain the change-seeking working class people as 'khates'--a term used vituperatively to mean those cursed to live in the streets. This basic ideological difference has caused complications in the current peace process in the country. However, middle class intellectuals, who refer to themselves as civil society leaders, have continued their efforts to bridge the ideologically differing forces.
If the international community, equipped with their own ideological settings, use wrong tactics in Nepal, this is not likely to benefit them since the 21st century is marked by the democratic and human rights movement backed by the information and communication revolution. The Nepalis, suppressed for centuries want political and socio-economic transformation to establish durable peace in their country. In this context, massacre industry for the sake of lucrative arms trade can never be a logical business in the human world.
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