Citizen’s Trust in Army in Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study

Abstract

This thesis entitled “citizen’s trust in army in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study” is an important milestone in the literature of citizen’s trust in public institutions in army in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka. Citizen’s trust is the sources ofpower in democratized setting. Good governance is the fullest expectation of citizens in newpublic management. Government has varieties of institutions and army is one of them.Citizen’s trust is paradigm of military profession. Citizen’s trust in armed force is essential phenomenon to validate military expenses and even existence. Citizen’s trust is water and military is a fish and trust in military is like blood in abody. So citizen’s trust is imperative and it is bedrock of military profession. The primaryduty of army is to provide safety and security but without safety and security nodevelopment, peace and prosperity is imagined. The citizen’s trust is varied from one countryto another. This is always changeable from time to time based on the functional performanceof military institutions. Trust is one simple thing but it can quickly change everything. Trustis indeed significant for longterm purpose with meeting strategic goal and objectives of state.Strategic partner perceive that he or she is not in the risk even in the risky and uncertain situation because of trust and confidence. The armed forces in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka are leading security forces and have amandate to protect the country and citizens for the purpose of prosperous country and happycitizens.Military service is also citizen-made society within society. This citizens are those whose character, competence, and commitment exemplify the exhibitions through the armyethic by the selfless sacrifice of life approach for the further betterment of country andcitizens. Citizens’ trust is varied from one country to another and is always based on their performance of armed forces. This study has applied research methodology properly. The secondary data has been used forthe quantitative analysis and interview was conducted on the basis of judgmental samplingfor qualitative analysis. After chi-square test through SPSS,P value is less than 0.05 percentwhich means there is no significant difference. So the null hypothesis is accepted and alternative hypothesis is rejected. So it has been proved that citizen’s trust in armed forces in Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri-Lanka is varied.