News and Insight

This month Smart Peace consortium partners presented lessons learnt from their experiences of innovative peacebuilding in northeast Nigeria, Central African Republic and Myanmar at an online event hosted by Chatham House.

Joint statement by Conciliation Resources, European Institute of Peace, InterMediate, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Berghof Foundation, CMI Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and CITpax Centro Internacional de Toledo para la Paz.

A new short film is the centrepiece of Conciliation Resources' #SeeTheHuman campaign. The film sees three opposing ‘pairs’ confronting each other before realising that they have more in common than first meets the eye.

Smart Peace has launched a series of guides introducing the various Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning methods utilised over the course of this ground-breaking project on innovative peacebuilding.

The recent events in Afghanistan are highly concerning. Our team are putting all efforts into ensuring the safety of those they work with in Afghanistan at this difficult time, whilst looking ahead at what is needed for inclusive peace in Afghanistan.

Prosper Ndimbo is a peacebuilder living in Bossangoa, a small town in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR). Bossangoa saw some of the worst fighting during the conflict that engulfed CAR from 2012. Although the levels of violent conflict have reduced in recent years, tensions still remain, in particular since the electoral crisis of December 2020.

Conciliation Resources is partnering with the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund to deliver a new series of grants to address the funding gap on women’s participation in peace processes.

Waleed Khan is the Director of Programmes and Finance at the Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR), one of Conciliation Resources’ partner organisations in South Asia. KIIR is a not-for-profit organisation based in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, which promotes peacebuilding in the region.

Libya is a country that has seen violent conflict and political gridlock since the revolution in 2011. Despite continuing high levels of violence and the absence of a formal peace settlement, local mediation efforts are taking place. These processes are contributing to pockets of stability and strengthening local capacity to handle conflict – reconciliation is not something that can only happen once a peace settlement has been reached.

Conciliation Resources and the Political Settlements Research Programme (PSRP) in conjunction with the Mediation Support Network are hosting an online event to support the launch of our new Accord Spotlight publication, ‘Ceasefire Monitoring: Developments and Complexities’.

Joint Conciliation Resources, International Alert and Saferworld statement on the impact of UK aid cuts on peacebuilding efforts and our partners around the world.

Mohamed Mohamud Mohamed, commonly known by his birthplace, ‘Darusalam’, was raised in the rural heartlands of the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia. It was here that the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) were, for more than two decades, fighting for self-determination for Somalis in the Ogaden region, against the government of Ethiopia.