Respect

I thought I had learned my lesson. Beyond the new learning requires a process of renewal, to remember what is known, and from what is known, to stay in touch with those things that are truly important.

In January 2009, we gathered outside Kathmandu in the agricultural training center in Bhaktapur for the start of our workshop on conflict transformation and natural resource conflict. Thirty-plus people from fifteen districts had arrived from across Nepal, members of the Community Forest Users Group, the Water Irrigation Users Groups, and the Community Mediation movement. Each afternoon our session after lunch started with someone singing…