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.

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December 2015
Insight
La paix, la sécurité, un avenir, tels sont les besoins fondamentaux que les gens en proie à un conflit violent désirent et recherchent à tout prix. Or, s’efforcer de rétablir la confiance, les moyens de subsistance, les institutions et les relations est un travail complexe et à long terme, émaillé de bonds en avant et de pas en arrière: voilà en quoi consiste la mission même de la consolidation de la paix. Nous ne pouvons pas ne pas la mener.
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December 2015
Insight
Peace, security, a future: basic needs that people in the midst of violent conflict desperately want and seek. However, building back trust, livelihoods, institutions and relationships is a complex and long-term endeavours, full of steps forward and back. This is the task of peacebuilding. And we can’t afford not to do it. Here are just three reasons why peacebuilding matters today.
December 2015

Froilyn Mendoza is an indigenous community leader. Despite her young age, she has already helped to highlight the rights and struggles of indigenous people on a national and international scale in the framework of the peace process in southern Philippines.

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December 2015
Insight
Paz, seguridad, un futuro: necesidades básicas deseadas y buscadas desesperadamente por las personas inmersas en el conflicto violento. No obstante, reconstruir la confianza, los medios de subsistencia, las instituciones y las relaciones es una tarea compleja y de largo plazo, llena de avances y retrocesos. En esto consiste la tarea de construir paz. Y no nos podemos dar el lujo de no hacerlo.
December 2015

Congratulations to our partner, Madame Rashida Mamba who has received the medal of "Officier dans l'Ordre du Merite Centrafricain" for her tireless work to reconcile Christians and Muslims in the country.

November 2015
Insight

Europe is speechless with racing rhetoric, opinion-making, hasty declarations, reactions, and helpless gestures, some promoting understanding and some preventing tolerance and openness.

November 2015
News

A landmark agreement between Government officials and NGO representatives of Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia has been signed to promote the value and importance of security and social cohesion in the border communities.

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November 2015
News

Un accord historique a été signé entre les hauts fonctionnaires et des représentants d’ONG de Côte d’Ivoire et du Libéria. Il doit son aboutissement aux séances de dialogue organisées et facilitées en début d’année par Janet Adama Mohammed, directrice du programme Afrique de l’Ouest de Conciliation Resources.

October 2015
Insight

In Ukraine, several initiatives are using dialogue to build options to address some of the country’s most difficult challenges. Visualising them may help strengthen their impact and learn from each other.

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October 2015
Insight

This infographic captures women's participation in peace negotiations, shows how we recognise broader contributions to peace and gives examples of how women are building peace around the world.

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October 2015
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This week marks seven years of trade across the militarised Line of Control (LoC). As the anniversary is celebrated those involved question if it is time for the governments to take this trade to the next level.

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September 2015
News

Los invitamos el próximo Viernes 18 de Septiembre de 7pm a 9pm a unirse a la conversación sobre la migración y el exilio y la construcción de memoria histórica. También se explorará cómo se puede utilizar sus experiencias para contribuir al proceso de paz en Colombia.