News and Insight

Asida Shakryl was the co-director of The Center for Humanitarian Programmes, one of Conciliation Resources’ longest standing partners in the Caucasus. She shares her positive experience of peacebuilding through partnership.

This week, Rev. Peter Price steps down as the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Conciliation Resources. We spoke to him about his time as Chair of Conciliation Resources, and what he thinks makes for peace.

After more than 50 years of war, Colombia is now 16 months in to the implementation of an historic peace agreement.

Despite being disproportionately affected by the conflict in Colombia, the voices of indigenous women are often not heard. Over the past year, alongside our Colombian partner CIASE, Conciliation Resources has been working to establish and support a network of indigenous women to play a fundamental role in the country’s peace process.

This month, a meeting of the global Mediation Support Network explored the roles mediation and mediation support can play, once a peace agreement has been signed. Felix Colchester outlines some of the challenges and opportunities for mediation in this phase of a peace agreement.

A pesar de que las mujeres indígenas se vieron seriamente afectadas por el conflicto en Colombia, sus voces no siempre son escuchadas. Durante todo el año pasado, Conciliation Resources trabajó mancomunadamente con su socio colombiano CIASE para establecer y apoyar una red de mujeres indígenas capaces de desempeñar un papel fundamental en el proceso de paz del país.

Julienne Mouala first learnt about child psychology when she started working as a young teacher at a school in Bangui, Central African Republic (CAR). Now she helps young people affected by the conflict.

Conciliation Resources will be welcoming mediation support experts from more than 20 organisation from around the globe to London from 5 March, for the annual meeting of the Mediation Support Network (MSN).