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.
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.
Gavin leads Conciliation Resources' global support and governance structures, overseeing teams working across governance, human resources, safety and compliance, facilities and IT. Gavin is an accredited and experienced change management practitioner with expertise in fundraising, finance, safeguarding, operations, programme development and management. He has held senior operational leadership positions within the international development sector for more than 10 years.
Priscillah is the Finance and Operations Manager in our Africa Department. She has over 14 years experience and technical expertise in finance and grants. Prior to joining Conciliation Resources, Priscillah worked with international development partners on multi-million dollar projects in Eastern and Southern Africa - including Ethiopia, Mozambique, Djibouti, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Somalia - where she supported initiatives in governance, food security, emergency response, civil society strengthening, and social and economic inclusion.
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.
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.
Conflicts arising from or resulting in self-determination claims have for decades accounted for half the conflicts in the world. This report brings together learning from the initial phase of a three-year partnership between Conciliation Resources and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) looking at how a transformative approach to peace mediation can help prevent, manage or resolve self-determination conflicts. The report examines what distinct mediation and peacebuilding challenges self-determination conflicts present; what options and approaches mediation and peace practitioners can use to help address them; and how mediation and peace support processes can better connect across different groups, levels and spaces in effectively addressing these conflicts.
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?
Gender and social inequality, the climate crisis and conflict are three of the biggest challenges of our time. But despite clear connections, there is a gap in evidence about how all three interact in practice. In many of the contexts where we work, our partners have increasingly highlighted that climate change is complicating and exacerbating conflict, often in relation to gender and cultural dynamics. Through insights from our partners in Uganda, Pakistan-administered Kashmir and the Philippines, this report provides lessons for more gender and culturally responsive peacebuilding and climate programming and policy.
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.
