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.

[1] 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.