The Liberal Democracy Nepal Bulletin (LDNB) is committed to publishing high quality essays and commentaries. In order to encourage excellence and a greater number of submissions, LDNB has created the "LDN Bulletin Best Essay Award". Each year, a committee of scholars will review all submissions for the previous year and choose the best article or essay. Generally, the selection process will take place in early December, and the recipient of the award will be notified by the end of the year. Only longer pieces (articles and essays) will be considered for this award.

The committee members for the 2005 LDN Bulletin Best Essay Award are listed below.

Dr. Neil Mitchell
Department of Political Science
University of Aberdeen, UK
Professor Neil Mitchell has accepted appointment to a personal chair in politics at the University of Aberdeen, starting August 2005. Prior to joining the University of Aberdeen he served as professor of political science and was department chair for eight years at the University of New Mexico. His major research interests are international human rights and interest group politics. Most recently he is the author of Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil Wars (Palgrave Macmillan 2004).


Dr. Kenneth Roberts
Department of Government
Cornell University, USA
Kenneth M. Roberts is Professor of Government, Cornell University. He completed his doctorate at Stanford University in 1992, and taught at the University of New Mexico from 1992-2005. He is the author of Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru" (Stanford University Press, 1998), and "Changing Course: Parties, Populism, and Political Representation in Latin America's Neoliberal Era" (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press). His research has also been published in American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, Latin American Politics and Society, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Security, and other scholarly journals.


Dr. Surya P. Subedi
School of Law
University of Leeds, UK

Dr Subedi is Professor of International Law at the School of Law of the University of Leeds, England. Prior to his appointment at Leeds, he was Professor of Law and Director of Postgraduate Affairs at the University of Hull, and Professor of International Law and Head of the Centre for Legal Research at Middlesex University. Professor Subedi has published three sole-authored books (two of which have been published by Oxford University Press) and two edited collections. He also has published a large number of articles in most major international law journals. Professor Subedi is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the World Conservation Union. He has represented the UK in the Committee on Water Resources Law of the International Law Association and is currently a UK member in the Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development. He is the Founder-Chairman of the Britain-Nepal Academic Council, London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of the UK in 2004.

LDN Bulletin Best Essay Award for 2005

(To be announced)