Suraj Budathoki, Peace Initiative Bhutan, message for Sapan Restorative Justice session
Channel: Southasia Peace Action Network
Date: 25/06/2023

Suraj Budathoki co-founded Peace Initiative Bhutan calling for a peace and reconciliation process in his native country Bhutan.  The organisation was registered as a nonprofit in 2022. 

Suraj came to the U.S.A. as a resettled refugee in 2009, and lives in New Hampshire where he is a Refugee Congress Honorary Delegate from the state. 

A small business owner, and a founding member of the Building Community in New Hampshire (formerly the Bhutanese Community of New Hampshire), BCNH, he has coordinated the New American Youth Engagement Project at BCNH. Suraj was nominated for the American Council of Young Political Leaders in 2014 and 2016. The Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire listed him in the 40-Under-40 Class of 2016. 

He holds a Master’s in international relations from Norwich University, and serves as a conduct board member in the City of Manchester, NH.  In his spare time, he reads political books and advocates for the rights of the exiled Bhutanese.

Read his oped in Sapan News: The world’s ‘happiest country’ needs a peace and reconciliation process
https://sapannews.com/2022/08/12/the-worlds-happiest-country-needs-a-peace-and-reconciliation-process/