Social media plays a major role in empowering youth as it did in the recent Gen Z protests in Nepal. But its role in protest movements can also be problematic.
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Social media acted as both a magnifier and accelerator to protests, linking perceived injustice to on-the-ground activism.
The youth who shook Nepal’s streets are being asked to help shape the country’s political future – can it work?
Protests in Nepal have seen government buildings torched and the country’s prime minister resign.
A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s civil war.
At a time when democratic norms appear to be in decline around the world, deliberative democracy is one potential remedy worth pursuing.
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