सद्भाव प्रतिष्ठान, Independent civic research, Nepal
Verified evidence, so citizens can judge the record, not the noise.
Concord Institute for Public Affairs is a nonpartisan, non-profit team of specialists in migration, climate, public health, security and diplomacy, digital governance, and cultural-political research. We make primary-source civic and policy information accessible to ordinary Nepali citizens, publishing in Nepali and English and writing especially for younger readers.
Our editorial standard is simple. Everything we publish is either grounded in verifiable primary documents or clearly labelled as good-faith opinion on a public figure's conduct in their official capacity, never unverified accusation or outrage. Editorial independence is written into our governing document, not left to practice, and our conflict-of-interest rules require anyone affiliated with an institution to step back from research about it.
Concord: harmony built on verified fact, not on noise.
Why we exist
A country cannot choose well if it cannot see clearly.
In 2025, a generation of Nepali youth took to the streets, not only over a banned app, but over years of watching power reward itself while ordinary people were asked to believe things were fine. That anger was real. But anger fades, and what too often fills the space is the next viral outrage, not the actual record.
We built Concord Institute for Public Affairs because we believe Nepali deserve better than a choice between distant academic reports no one reads and social-media noise that rewards the loudest voice. Between those two failures sits the thing that actually protects a democracy: verified, understandable information about what our institutions and leaders actually do, not what they say, not what goes viral, but what the record shows.
Our founders have spent their lives inside Nepal's institutions and its most marginalized communities, in the army, in hospitals, in climate-vulnerable villages, in classrooms abroad. We have seen how the gap between the promise and the delivery falls hardest on those with the least. We are not here to tell anyone how to think. We are here to put the documented facts in front of them, clearly, honestly, in the languages and formats they actually use, and trust them to judge for themselves.
Why we are called Concord
Concord means harmony, not conflict.
Concord Institute began with a family and a shared conviction: that Nepal's deepest divisions are made worse not by disagreement itself, but by the absence of shared, trustworthy facts to disagree over.
We did not start this to take a side, and holding power to account is not the opposite of harmony. A nation holds together when its citizens can see clearly, judge fairly, and disagree without tearing each other apart, moving forward on evidence rather than fear.
That belief, concord over conflict, is the reason we exist and the standard we hold ourselves to.
Our approach
प्रश्न एक, उत्तर अनेक
We take a single question and examine it deeply, through the answers and analysis of many different fields. Every question in political life is really made of many problems at once, economic, climate, security, social, religious, and questions of identity. By bringing each of those lenses to one question, we see it in full, not in fragments.
Our core pillars
Six areas where primary-source research can most directly serve Nepali citizens, each examined through the many lenses described above.
Migration & Diaspora Governance
Climate & Rural Resilience
Public Health Systems
Security, Diplomacy & Geopolitics
Digital Governance
Religious & Cultural-Political Literacy
Our leadership
The Institute is led by a board of five, three founders and two independent specialists, each responsible for a core pillar, supported by expert advisors.
Meet the full board and advisors
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Hom Nath Dawadi
Chairperson & Founder
Former Major General, Nepal Army, National Security & Institutional Reform
Hom Nath Dawadi chairs Concord Institute for Public Affairs after more than 35 years in the Nepal Army, where he rose to Major General and held senior positions including Division Commander, Inspector General at Army Headquarters, and Coordinator at the National Security Council. His career gave him a rare inside view of how national institutions actually function under pressure, and where they need reform.
During Nepal's Maoist insurgency and the peace process that followed, he served as Director for the integration of former Maoist combatants into the Nepal Army, one of the most sensitive transitions in the country's modern security history. As Inspector General, he was responsible for institutional accountability and anti-corruption oversight across the entire army. He has also served in United Nations peacekeeping missions in Lebanon, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Haiti, receiving a Certificate of Exceptional Performance as Head of Military Operations during the Haiti mission, where he also helped oversee the country's presidential election.
Beyond his operational career, he has contributed to strategic policy research, including a published paper on Nepal and Bangladesh economic cooperation in the NDC Journal (2019), and currently serves as an Advisor at the Ex-Security Council Nepal. He leads the Institute's Security, Diplomacy & Geopolitics work, and, under its conflict-of-interest rules, recuses himself from any research touching institutions he remains affiliated with, including the Ex-Security Council. He holds a Master's in Security and Defence in International Policy from the Bangladesh University of Professionals and is a graduate of the Nepalese Army War College's Higher Command and Management Course.
SERVICE
35+ years, Nepal Army, Division Commander, Inspector General, NSC Coordinator
UN PEACEKEEPING
Lebanon, Ethiopia and Eritrea, Haiti
FOCUS
National security policy, civil-military coordination, institutional integrity
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