How Nepal is Learning To Cope With the Psychological Toll of Its Missing By Diwash Gahatraj Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -

How Nepal is Learning To Cope With the Psychological Toll of Its Missing By Diwash Gahatraj KATHMANDU, Oct 12 2026 (IPS) - Nearly three decades ago, in the final stretch of Nepal’s civil war, Dr Brandon Kohrt sat with parents whose sons had been conscripted as child soldiers and never returned. Nobody could tell them what had happened, whether their sons were alive somewhere, whether they were dead, or even where to begin looking. That absence of an answer, Kohrt says, never really left those families. It is the same absence now facing thousands of households across Nepal, after catastrophic floods swept away entire communities. https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/10/how-nepal-is-learning-to-cope-with-the-psychological-toll-of-its-missing/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=If_the_UN_COP_Is_Serious_About_Biodiversity_It_Needs_to_Follow_the_Money_World_Lost_More_Than_Millio Copyright © 2026 IPS-Inter Press Service. All rights reserved. -