Laura Aumeer

Laura Aumeer

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 O'Toole

Ciaran O'Toole

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.

Towards an inclusive and transformative peace

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.

Q&A: A new way forward for gender and peacebuilding

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.

Putting futures thinking into practice

Following research carried out last year by Conciliation Resources into futures thinking, mediation and reconciliation, in April, in partnership with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), we brought together partners and colleagues from around the world to explore how a futures thinking approach could support their peacebuilding work. Futures thinking methods are used in the corporate sector to help businesses identify long-term challenges and opportunities, and make strategic decisions. They can also be used to help people in conflict-affected contexts take a step back from current challenges, envisage what a more peaceful future could look like and think through potential pathways to get there.

Building trust in peace mediation

Violent conflicts are fuelled by narratives of harm and injustice, as well as personal and collective experiences of trauma and pain. Societal trust is a significant casualty of conflict, and its loss is a major barrier to making peace. This paper addresses why building trust is a core objective of peace mediation, why trust is essential to successful peace processes, and how mediation processes can help build trust strategically.

Learning from the Good Friday Agreement

The signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, in 1998 was the result of long and arduous negotiations to end 30 years of sectarian violence and political stalemate. But the impact of this peace process goes far beyond Northern Ireland. Over the twenty five years since the agreement was signed, Conciliation Resources has supported people living with conflict around the globe to travel to Northern Ireland and learn first-hand how a society can transition from violence to politics as a way to resolve conflict.  

Working towards a feminist peace in Colombia

In 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia  (FARC) signed an historic peace deal to end over 52 years of conflict. However, since 2016 peace in Colombia has faced many challenges; a narrowly defeated referendum on the peace deal, distancing from the peace process under the government of Ivan Duque and a resurgence of violence. 

Event - The Karabakh Conflict and Armenian-Azerbaijani Relations: Latest Developments

Join us for a talk and discussion with Dr Philip Gamaghelyan.

When: 30 March, 4.30-6pm

Where: Conciliation Resources, Burghley Yard, 106 Burghley Road, London NW5 1AL.

Dr Philip Gamaghelyan is Assistant Professor, at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego and Co-Founder of the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation. He will share his analysis of the latest developments in the Karabakh conflict and peace negotiations, followed by a Q and A. 

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