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.

March 2024
Insight

Embracing the theme of 'Inspire Inclusion' for International Women's Day 2024, we're proud to highlight our work and our partners in fostering peace through inclusive approaches. Every woman deserves to have her voice heard and be included in shaping a peaceful future. To understand and value women's inclusion and work towards a world where diversity is celebrated and all voices are heard. Together, let's continue to empower women, bridge divides, and build a more inclusive world.

February 2024
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In this blog, Professor Michael Semple explores the profound challenges for peacemakers striving to engage a populace stifled by repression and fear, and urges that some basic precautions be followed.

January 2024
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Conciliation Resources announces the appointment of Lucy Moore as its new Interim Chair of the Board of Trustees. Lucy has extensive experience in conflict transformation and global development across diverse regions.

December 2023
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Reconciliation among different groups and communities in the Somali Regional State (SRS) in Ethiopia is an ongoing challenge, after a 2018 peace deal ended many years of insurgency. Social and political links between various Somali communities are strong and reach over borders and boundaries across the Horn of Africa. These connections have a major impact on how reconciliation moves forward in the SRS.

November 2023
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After seven years on the Board of Conciliation Resources, Diana Good is stepping down as Chair this month. We caught up with the former aid watchdog commissioner to find out what she’s learned about peacebuilding, and what she thinks the future holds for the sector.

November 2023
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In November, Conciliation Resources and Inter Mediate joined a diverse range of civil society organisations, politicians and policy makers for this year’s Paris Peace Forum to discuss climate change, peacebuilding and our Joint Environmental Venture for South Asia.

October 2023
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In September 2023, Conciliation Resources brought together women working to influence peace processes for a comparative learning event in Nairobi to share experiences and best practices in highlighting the unique role of women in building peace.

October 2023
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In December 2022, as part of their partnership on ‘Mediating Self-determination Conflicts’, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and Conciliation Resources ran a joint analysis workshop with international and local mediators, people associated with conflict parties, civil society, and experts and practitioners working on self-determination, human rights and peacebuilding.

October 2023
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Five years ago, on 21 October 2018, the Government of Ethiopia and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) signed the Asmara Peace Deal - an historic occasion marking the end of over 30 years of armed conflict in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia (SRS). But a peace deal isn’t an endpoint. It’s a milestone in the long road to addressing the root causes of a conflict, and building a society where all people have a voice. So, what’s changed in the region and what challenges are still to overcome?

September 2023
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The climate crisis, conflict and gender and social inequality form a connected system. Each challenge shapes, and is shaped by, the others. Policy and practice - which addresses each of these challenges - therefore has the potential to reinforce or undermine progress in the other.

September 2023
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2023 marks the mid-way point for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure all people enjoy peace and prosperity. There are 17 SDGs in total, but they don’t sit in isolation and without peace, inclusion and equality it simply won’t be possible to achieve these global ambitions.

September 2023
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The climate crisis is putting increasing pressure on already complex conflicts and deepening the issues that drive conflict. But how we respond to a changing climate can also present opportunities to bridge divides. In this video, Irtaza Muhammad and Ms. Noraida Abu explain how the climate crisis interacts with conflict in Kashmir and the Philippines, and the opportunities for peacebuilding.