News and Insight

We are delighted to have signed a four-year framework contract on conflict prevention and mediation support for the EU, for which we were chosen together with our partners from swisspeace, ESSEC IRENE, CITpax, ECDPM, and Search for Common Ground.

Evidence shows that peace processes that are more inclusive have a better chance of success. But what does it mean to be inclusive and how can this be achieved?

Last week, Conciliation Resources’ launched an innovative new network, which will be a platform for the peer-to-peer learning of women mediators.

There is the opportunity now for progress towards peace in Afghanistan. But to become reality, it needs a new step-by-step approach.

Brendan McAllister, in an interview with Lynn Finnegan, reflects on a conversation he had with the Dalai Lama in Northern Ireland, who was there on a peace mission sitting in with a Catholic priest: "This is what mediation is trying to facilitate - enabling the process to see beyond what is evide

Despite the fact that landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325 is soon going to celebrate its twentieth anniversary, the number of women who lead or participate in high-level peace mediation processes remains disappointing.

Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) has signed a partnership contract to work with Pierre Yves Monette and Antje Herrberg to support ECOWAS in the prevention of electoral violence through training on mediation and facilitation within electoral contexts.

Imagine Peace is a new portrait exhibition that celebrates Colombian women of the diaspora living in the UK and Spain. The exhibition will take place at the London College of Communication studio in the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre from 6-8 July 2018.

Taliban leaders, Afghan government representatives, and national and international experts have contributed to a new Accord publication, examining the prospects for peace in the country and how this could be achieved.

A radical new approach is needed in Afghanistan to build peace step-by-step. In this film, Accord editors Anna Larson and Alexander Ramsbotham, and Accord adviser Michael Semple, discuss what you can expect from the publication.