Purna Shova Chitrakar Explained

Purna Shova Chitrakar
Nationality:	Nepalese
Occupation:	Activist, Writer
Known For:	N-Peace Award recipient
Spouse:	Surendra Pandey

Purna Shova Chitrakar is an activist, columnist, writer, Nepalese founder of Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL), and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2011.^[1]

In 1995 Chitrakar founded Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL) to ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpile of landmines.^[2] She is the author of the paper Mine-risk Education in Nepal, 2009^[3] and Aadha Akash. She has had her articles on mine action, politics and social discourses published in various weekly and bi-monthly newspapers. In 2011 Chitrakar was one of inaugural recipients of the N-Peace Award. The same year Nepal was declared free of landmine fields.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Purna Shova Chitrakar . N-PEACE . 12 September 2020 . 25 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210125203530/https://n-peace.net/alumni-pages/alumni-2011/purna-shova-chitrakar/ . live .
2. Web site: Purna Shova Chitrakar . Changemakers . 12 September 2020.
3. Chitraker . Purna Shova . Mine-risk Education in Nepal, 2009 . The Journal of ERW and Mine Action . 2009 . 12 September 2020 . 16 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200716225146/https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1467&context=cisr-journal . live .
4. Web site: Asian women peace advocates receive awards for their leadership . UNDP . 12 September 2020 . en.