February 2011
Conciliation Resources’ partner, Archbishop Odama of Gulu, spoke recently on a BBC News interview about the challenges of working to find a peaceful solution to the Lord’s Resistance Army conflict now it has spread to neighbouring countries. As part of his visit to London for the launch of Accord 22 on cross-border pacebuilding, he also also met the Archbishop of Canterbury.
February 2011
Conciliation Resources has launched two new workshop reports on the impact of counter-terrorism legislation on mediation. UK law prohibits meetings with blacklisted armed groups unless the meeting is considered "genuinely benign”. The reports summarise recent discussions on UK legislation and the findings from a workshop on EU legislation.
February 2011
Conciliation Resources’ partners Ayesha Saeed and Zafar Choudhary recently spoke in a BBC World programme about the trade across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir which was opened in 2008.
January 2011
The Swiss Embassy in London co-hosted a dinner with Conciliation Resources (CR), as a pre-launch for the latest Accord - Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders. Around 20 London-based ambassadors and senior diplomats attended the dinner.
January 2011
Conciliation Resources this week launched its latest Accord publication, number 22 in the series – Paix sans frontières: building peace across borders. Highlighting 20 different case studies, this publication looks at how peacebuilding strategies can think outside of the state.
October 2010
Insight
Two Conciliation Resources partners, from either side of the Line of Control in Kashmir, discuss how a recently opened trade route across the Line of Control is helping to build peace among communities in Kashmir.
January 1970
Лали Григолава выросла в Гальском районе Абхазии. Во время войны 92-93 годов она лишилась родного дома и теперь живет в компактном центре проживания ВПЛ.
Ezabir Ali has sought to break through barriers of mistrust in Jammu and Kashmir and, subsequently, helped to instigate and facilitate a number of discussions for women in the region.
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Visaka Dharmadasa is a member of the Women Mediators across the Commonwealth (WMC) network, and Chair of the Association of War Affected Women and Parents of Servicemen Missing in Action.
Thomas Odora is one of five young people trained in the Gulu District of northern Uganda, to act as ‘youth monitors’ – helping to involve the community in recovery and development.
Southern Sudan has suffered from decades of conflict, including the brutal civil war between North and South and clashes between Southern tribes. Since the 1990s Sudan has experienced the presence of the Lord’s Resistance Army, which has led to years of violence and abductions of Southern Sudanese children. Jim Long John works with the Totto Chan Centre for Child Trauma, in Juba, rehabilitating abductees of the LRA and child soldiers from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army.
Sulong CARHRIHL supports & sustains the peace process between the Government & the National Democratic Front by providing avenues for dialogue.