Spirituality as Nepal’s soft power

Abstract

Spirituality, in basic understanding, is world-centric attitude over self-centric, fundamentally a spiritual path that leads in certain direction. A spiritual diplomat needs to be ideally a harmonizer bringing agreement and understanding where there is fear, distrust and violence. The roots of all major war and violence seen in the world lies in collective fear of humanity assimilated by individual fear of every human. In this dissertation, the emergence and the importance of the Spirituality is examined, evaluated and discussed in the context of Nepal. The general objective of this research was to reflect the possibilities of spirituality making an impact amongst relationships bounded together by notion of nations, communities and organizations. The specific objective of this research was to examine role of Spirituality in the management of relationships between nations. Secondary data collection methods were used to collect information. The study is highly based on the qualitative data where the findings and results of the available literature are evaluated and discussed for the analysis. This study concludes that Spirituality which generally is seen to be connected with the spiritual leadership has been creating multiple avenues of problem-solving opportunities for the country and making huge difference on the international relations while also contributing to the socio-economic growth of the country like Nepal. The research suggests that, spirituality can be an effective soft power for Nepal in International Relations and Diplomacy and a common thread to bind different actors in international arena.