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This paper gives an account of Nepal’s peace process from 2006 to 2012. Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2006, the Maoist insurgency came to an end, however, agreement on a new constitution has been held up by disagreements over federalism. After the Supreme Court ruled that there could be no more extensions and elections to a new Constituent Assembly must be held, it was dissolved in May 2012. The author argues that despite the failure to agree on a new Constitution, progress was made on some important issues during the period 2006-2012, such as the agreement over the terms for integrating Maoist fighters into the Army.