Purna Shova Chitrakar

Purna Shova Chitrakar is an activist, columnist, writer, Nepalese founder of Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL), and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2011. She is currently the Director of NCBL. ^[1]

Purna Shova Chitrakar
Chitrakar at the 4MSP mobilisation workshop, 2013
Nationality	Nepalese
Occupation(s)	Activist, Writer
Known for	N-Peace Award recipient
Spouse	Surendra Pandey

In 1995 Chitrakar founded Ban Landmines Campaign Nepal (NCBL) to ban on the use, production, transfer and stockpile of landmines.^[2] She is the author of the paper Mine-risk Education in Nepal, 2009^[3]and Aadha Akash. She has published articles on mine action, politics, and social discourse, in various journals and newspapers. In 2011, Chitrakar was one of the inaugural recipients of the N-Peace Award. That same year, Nepal was declared landmine free.^[4]