News and Insight

It’s now almost two decades since the signing of the Bougainville Peace Agreement – an agreement that ended nearly a decade of violent conflict and saw the creation of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville within Papua New Guinea. Significant progress towards peace has been made in the region, but legacies of the conflict still present challenges – including for former combatants and the communities they live in.

We are heartbroken to announce the sudden death of our Board member, Luis Peral.

With the UN-led High Level Political Forum starting this week, the world’s attention turns to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year, the theme is 'Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality', a topic of significant relevance to peacebuilding organisations like Conciliation Resources.

Conflict is difficult, complex and political. There are no easy solutions for resolving conflict peacefully. So, the world urgently needs to find different ways to respond. Our Annual Report 2018 demonstrates how we are making peace possible.

Through outreach towards communities and FARDC commanders, civil-military committees have created space for dialogue in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Last month a peace agreement was signed between the Government of the Central African Republic and 14 armed groups, following talks in Sudan.

Last week, representatives from Conciliation Resources joined leaders and members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), as they announced their intention to form a political party and end over 20 years of armed opposition against the Ethiopian government.

At the end of February, mediatEUr members Luis Peral and David Price, assisted by our Project Assistant Esther Kestemont, went to Jordan in order to accomplish the first mission of our Future of Syria project, funded by the Robert Bosch Foundation and with financial and logistics support from the Nizami Ganjavi International Center.

At the request of the EEAS, mediatEUr was honoured to organise today (8th of March) a high-level meeting with H. E. President Faustin Archange Touadéra on the peace agreement in Central African Republic.