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We would like to say a huge thank you to all of the BBC Radio 4 listeners and Conciliation Resources’ supporters who so generously supported our appeal broadcast in September. The appeal has raised over £15,200 for our peacebuilding work, with donations still coming in!

What lessons can we learn from West Africa about preventing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the Ebola outbreak?

The story of one of the most significant periods in Georgia’s modern history is to be revealed in a new exhibition of never-before-seen original historical material in Tbilisi. 'The Corridors of Conflict: Abkhazia 1989 – 1995', will be held from October 4 at the State Museum of Literature until 29 October.

The United Nations (UN) was founded to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Now, 75 years later, will we reaffirm our commitment to collective action, centered on a vision of a peaceful and prosperous world for all? On the International Day of Peace, read this shared statement by peacebuilding organisations.

In January 2019, following a meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers in Paris, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe announced that the ministers had agreed on the necessity of ‘preparing their populations for peace’. This commitment, alongside a significant reduction in frontline violence and the power transition in Armenia, has driven speculation that the Armenian-Azerbaijani peace process may be gaining momentum.

mediatEUr supported the organisation of the High-Level Internal Peer-Coaching Seminar on "Mediation Diplomacy in the Context of the EU Common Foreign Policy" alongside the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF) and the European External Action Service (EEAS) in La Hulpe (Brussels) on the 9th and 10th September 2019.

The Colombian peace process has reached a critical juncture. On 29 August, ex-FARC guerrilla members announced that they were taking up arms once again. It’s certainly a blow – but it could also be the spark needed to re-ignite the flagging peace process.

Conciliation Resources has joined over 20 peacebuilding organisations around the world to launch the first ever global Peacebuilding Action Week from September 14-21, 2019.

Boko Haram began like many other Islamic movements - geared towards promoting religious values. Their vision of building an Islamic State, and replacing the existing Government that they see as corrupt and ineffective, was attractive to many. They quickly established a system of leadership that was capable of recruiting and retaining members, as well as combatants.

The relationship between human rights and peacebuilding has been increasingly recognised by international organisations in recent years.

“Nothing remains constant except change itself”: 2018 was a year of changes and progression.

In collaboration with the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the partners of the EEAS Framework Contract for Conflict Prevention and Mediation, mediatEUr organised the first Community of Practice (CoP) meeting on peace mediation in Brussels on the 26th of June.