News and Insight

Our staff and partners draw on decades of experience, understanding and analysis to make peace possible. As well as news, see their latest thoughtful insights covering violent conflict, peacebuilding, and global events.

February 2017

At the height of the Ebola crisis, it was estimated that 75 per cent of people contracting the disease were women. As the primary care givers to the sick, as nurses and as traders, women were more exposed to the virus and as such were often ostracised by their communities.

February 2017

Conciliation Resources has embarked on a new project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which aims to strengthen young people’s involvement in conflict prevention in areas affected by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

default image
February 2017

Conciliation Resources vient de lancer un nouveau projet en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) dont le but est de renforcer la participation des jeunes à la prévention des conflits dans des régions touchées par l’Armée de résistance du Seigneur (LRA).

January 2017
Insight

The Central African Republic (CAR) has had a long and turbulent history of violent conflict and political instability. Since the most recent crisis erupted in 2013 huge efforts have been made to pull the country back from the brink of armed conflict.

January 2017
Insight

The Ebola epidemic that struck West Africa three years ago impacted every section of society, but it was often women who were most affected by the tensions and conflict that the epidemic caused.

December 2016
Insight

Conciliation Resources’ partners Waqas Ali and Fayaz Ahmad Dar have been working on either side of the Line of Control (LoC) with young people in Kashmir.

December 2016
The crisis in eastern Aleppo is a tragic testimony to our collective failure to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
November 2016
Insight

The Dialogue Support Platform in Ukraine supports various Ukrainian dialogue initiatives all across the country. The dialogues vary in terms of their participants: some involve stationed soldiers and local residents, others involve local women who come to discuss their role in the conflict and in peacebuilding. They all support a process of exchange and understanding.

November 2016
Insight

Since July 2016 there has been an intense crisis in the Kashmir Valley in India-administered Kashmir, following the killing of militant Burhan Wani, Hizbul Mujahideen commander. A forum involving journalists from both sides of Kashmir is working to ensure that reporting from either side is not exacerbating the situation.

November 2016
Four new trustees have joined the board of Conciliation Resources, including a former negotiator in the Northern Ireland peace talks and the former EU Special Representative for Sudan.
November 2016
Insight

This is the story of Bossou, a village in Forest Guinea at the very epicentre of the deadly Ebola outbreak.

default image
November 2016

La histórica visita de estado al Reino Unido del presidente colombiano Juan Manuel Santos culminó con una reunión con mujeres colombianas que trabajan por la paz en todo Londres, donde reiteró su compromiso de hallarle una solución pacífica a los más de 50 año de guerra en Colombia.