Event - Taking UNSCR 1325 to the next level: Gender, Peace and Security
Venue: Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to the United Nations, New York, USA
Date: October 30, 2013, 1-3p.m.
Joint statement on the continuing crisis in LRA-affected areas
In September 2013 experts from our East and Central Africa team joined together in Brussels with peacebuilders from the region as well as counterparts from international NGOs.
Background to the Kashmir conflict: challenges and opportunities
This paper is the first in a series from the Kashmir Initiative Group (KIG), providing a background to the Kashmir context. The paper reflects on the current landscape in the region, identifies internal and external challenges and opportunities, and offers some suggested points of action in response to these.
An Analysis: 2013 Fiji Government Constitution
This document – produced by our partners the Citizens' Constitutional Forum – aims to provide an objective analysis of the Fiji Government Constitution that was presented on 22 August 2013 and assented on the 6 September 2013 (with amendments and revisions).
Gemma Galloway
Gemma first joined Conciliation Resources in January 2011, as Executive Assistant. She has a background in the humanitarian sector, working at The British Red Cross supporting health and social care programmes in Central Asia and carrying out deployment administration for ICRC delegates. Prior to joining Conciliation Resources, Gemma worked at Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War. Previous voluntary experience includes roles with the student support service Nightline and at a landmine museum in Cambodia.
Peace and progress in Central African Republic hinge on securing space for dialogue
Enhanced peacekeeping mission is a welcome development, but a lasting solution to CAR’s political problems requires coordinated national and cross-border cooperation on governance and security issues, as well as support for local civil society peace efforts.
Briefing: Crisis in the Central African Republic – August 2013
This briefing provides a situation overview of the Central African Republic up to August 2013, based on interviews and information gathered during two visits to CAR in May and August 2013 by Conciliation Resources staff and associated consultant, Guus Meijer.
Border community security: Mano River Union region
This research report presents key findings from the selected border region locations in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. It outlines key challenges to border communities in the region, with the aim of informing policy dialogues with relevant national government authorities on cross-border community security.
Accord 25 Joint analysis workshop report: Legitimacy and peace processes
Legitimacy in peace processes includes participation – so people have a voice; representation – so people's concerns are heard; and performance – so people see results. Legitimacy is vital to the support of a peace process, and can help make peace stick.
To explore how legitimacy can help build sustainable peace, Conciliation Resources brought together 38 practitioners, policymakers and stakeholders from a diversity of backgrounds for a two-day reflection.
Dr Achim Wennmann
Achim Wennmann is Researcher at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and Executive Coordinator of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. Dr Wennmann is Issue Editor of the Accord 25 publication.
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