February 2011
Conciliation Resources has launched two new workshop reports on the impact of counter-terrorism legislation on mediation. UK law prohibits meetings with blacklisted armed groups unless the meeting is considered "genuinely benign”. The reports summarise recent discussions on UK legislation and the findings from a workshop on EU legislation.
February 2011
Conciliation Resources’ partners Ayesha Saeed and Zafar Choudhary recently spoke in a BBC World programme about the trade across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir which was opened in 2008.
February 2011
The latest edition of Conciliation Resources’ Accord publication launched in Washington DC and New York City on 8 and 9 February respectively. The Accord, which focuses on cross-border peacebuilding, was also launched in Freetown, Sierra Leone with the British High Commission on 23 February and in Monrovia, Liberia on the 28 February.
January 2011
The Swiss Embassy in London co-hosted a dinner with Conciliation Resources (CR), as a pre-launch for the latest Accord - Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders. Around 20 London-based ambassadors and senior diplomats attended the dinner.
January 2011
Conciliation Resources this week launched its latest Accord publication, number 22 in the series – Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders. Highlighting 20 different case studies, this publication looks at how peacebuilding strategies can think outside of the state.
October 2010
Insight
Two Conciliation Resources partners, from either side of the Line of Control in Kashmir, discuss how a recently opened trade route across the Line of Control is helping to build peace among communities in Kashmir.
January 1970
Лали Григолава выросла в Гальском районе Абхазии. Во время войны 92-93 годов она лишилась родного дома и теперь живет в компактном центре проживания ВПЛ.
Southern Sudan has suffered from decades of conflict, including the brutal civil war between North and South and clashes between Southern tribes. Since the 1990s Sudan has experienced the presence of the Lord’s Resistance Army, which has led to years of violence and abductions of Southern Sudanese children. Jim Long John works with the Totto Chan Centre for Child Trauma, in Juba, rehabilitating abductees of the LRA and child soldiers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
Sulong CARHRIHL supports & sustains the peace process between the Government & the National Democratic Front by providing avenues for dialogue.
Pawan Bali is a journalist working in Delhi, India. Here she gives the inside story about her collaboration with Mohammad Arif Urfi on their documentary film A Journey Through River Vitasta. Describing the communication and travel barriers they had to overcome to produce the first ever joint film on Kashmir, she highlights the lessons they've taken from working together across the Line of Control.
Nouneh Sarkissian on how Internews Armenia works with Conciliation Resources to train youth participants in producing peacebuilding films in the South Caucasus