The conference sessions will be designed to focus on the inter-relationships between the main theme of the conference, i.e. environment and tourism, tourism and peace, and peace and environment. Research papers and working papers in these broad themes are invited from researchers, academics, practitioners, policy makers, planners, development workers, civil society, and entrepreneurs. The tune of each thematic session shall be set by lead papers to be presented by the invited speakers from among the well known personalities in the fields.

All the papers submitted shall be reviewed by an expert panel for presentation in the conference. Priority will be given to those papers that covers cross-cutting themes mentioned above.

We cordially invite all the interested contributors to kindly submit abstract of their analytical paper maximum 500 words on Peace, Environment, Tourism and their cross cutting issues on or before 30 May, 2011 in a prescribed format available on www.petconference.org.np.