Dr. Shidiki Abubakar Ali is part of the research team working on our XCEPT project, Promoting Peaceful Pastoralism. As part of this project, he has been researching cross-border pastoralism, environmental change, peace and conflict along the borders of Nigeria and Cameroon. Here, he talks about the findings from recent fieldwork for this project, conducted in Cameroon.
Over the past few months, I have been listening to the ideas of Afghans involved in previous rounds of their country’s peace process. These Afghan ‘peacemakers’ include men and women who were members of Afghanistan’s peace and reconciliation commissions, served on the negotiation team supposed to cut a deal with the Taliban, or worked as officials, government advisers or religious scholars.
Moniek joined Conciliation Resources in April 2020, as the Operations Manager to lead the new operations team in our Melbourne Branch Office. In her role, Moniek is responsible for office management, HR, finance processes, logistics, safety and compliance. Moniek has worked in the charity sector for over eight years implementing health programs across Asia and the Pacific, including working on humanitarian responses in both Nepal and Afghanistan. Moniek has a Master's in Human Nutrition from Massey University, New Zealand.
Laura joined Conciliation Resources in October 2019, and is Director of the Europe-Asia Department, overseeing work in the South Caucasus and South Asia regions, as well as our cross-regional peacebuilding work. Laura brings expertise on adaptive peacebuilding management and led our work with the Smart Peace consortium, an innovative consortium integrating research and implementation to address complex conflict problems. She also worked closely with the Women Mediators across the Commonwealth Team, providing secretariat support to the network.
Ciaran heads up the South East Asia and the Pacific programme for Conciliation Resources, managing the programme's staff based in Australia, the Philippines and London.
Gender responsive and transformative approaches can help us build a more inclusive, sustainable peace and are a key part of our new gender strategy. In northeast Nigeria, we’ve been using these approaches to build more inclusive community peacebuilding processes in a region living under constant insurgencies.
This strategy sets out the principles which guide and shape our approach to gender, why gender is essential to our peacebuilding vision, and the steps we will take to become a gender responsive, and ultimately gender transformative, organisation.
Conciliation Resources is launching a new gender strategy which sets out the steps we will take over the next five years to become a gender responsive, and ultimately gender transformative, organisation. We spoke to our gender team, Amy Dwyer and Gabriel Nuckhir, about what this means, how this will benefit our peacebuilding work, and their hopes for the new strategy.
