Cross-LoC film bridges Kashmir’s divide

For the first time, film makers from both sides of the Line of Control have collaboratively made a film on life in Jammu and Kashmir. Faith Divided looks at the impact of conflict on the lives of communities on either side of the divide.

Post-2015: A Peacebuilder’s Perspective

Post 2015 Peacebuilders Perspectives
Peace and security, the environment, development and human rights are intrinsically connected. Read our reflections on how violence reduction and the promotion of peace can truly be put at the heart of the post-2015 development framework.

Afghanistan post-2014: reverberations in Kashmir

2014 is a pivotal year in Afghanistan with a major drawdown of US troops under way. This latest briefing paper considers the possible scenarios for neighbouring Kashmir. What are the implications for the already fragile Indian-Pakistani dialogue? And what impact will it have on intra-Kashmir peacebuilding initiatives? For more information on the background to the Kashmir conflict please see the previous brief in this series.

Letter: Effective targets to promote sustainable peace

Open letter to UN's OWG on Sustainable Development Goals
To address the underlying drivers of conflict, our definition of peace needs to more than the absence of violence. Conciliation Resources and 32 other civil society groups have sent a joint letter to the UN’s Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals addressing this and identifying effective targets to promote sustainable peace.

Indonesia - Asia’s perestroika: regime change and transition from within

Legitimacy and peace processes: from coercion to consent

Agus Wandi and Nezar Patria discuss Asian perestroika in Indonesia. Years of reformist mobilisation underpinned the collapse of President Suharto’s New Order dictatorship in 1998 – ultimately sparked by the Asian economic crisis. Transition since then has required difficult processes to disentangle the military from the political sphere and to decentralise power.

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