Realm of the possible: Gal/i

The Gal/i region has long been a focus for controversy in the Georgian-Abkhaz context. It is the southernmost district of Abkhazia, and highly populated by ethnic Georgians, whose living conditions, identity and rights are contested issues that create an uncertain outlook for the future.

What is a political settlement?

Whilst the term ‘political settlement’ has gained prominence recently amongst academics, practitioners and policymakers, there is still a considerable lack of clarity of what it actually is.

The Voice of Peace: grassroots news and views from East and Central Africa - Apr-Jun 2015

This issue of the Voice of Peace highlights the vital role that civil society organisations are playing in conflict affected areas to address the causes and effects of violence. From South Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR) we hear how local groups are leading diverse initiatives to reconcile people previously abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) with host communities. In South Sudan, traditional Azande ceremonies bring people together. In CAR tailoring classes help returnees find their place.

Daniel Tucker

Daniel is a Project Manager in our West Africa programme and has over ten years’ experience in designing and managing peacebuilding initiatives throughout the region.

For the past five years, he has led on the delivery of Conciliation Resources’ portfolio of participatory research and peacebuilding projects in West Africa with a particular focus upon pastoralist-farmer violence in Nigeria, the Boko Haram insurgency in North East Nigeria and the spread of violence by proscribed armed groups from the Sahel to the Burkina Faso-Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana tri-border region.

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