Dennis Bright

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Dennis Bright

Dennis Bright is country director of the 'Institut Regional de Cooperation' (IRCOD), a Sierra Leonean NGO working with youth, women and social issues. He is a Commissioner on the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace (CCP) and holds a PhD from the University of Bordeaux, France.

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Accord Issue 9: Sierra Leone

David Newton

David Newton

David joined Conciliation Resources in February 2011 until 2014, after working for four years as a conflict adviser in the UK’s Department for International Development. Prior to that he spent three years as the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Representative in Uganda, managing a team working on the LRA conflict.

He had previously worked at the Centre for International Cooperation at the University of Bradford, and for a variety of NGOs and the Swiss Development Agency in Central Asia and the north Caucasus.

Talking borders

Our three-part 20-minute docu-drama gives a voice to communities in the border regions of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, whose daily lives are blighted by petty corruption, routine harassment and bureaucracy.

Felix Colchester

Felix Colchester

Felix works across the APL team. He coordinates strands of Conciliation Resources' policy engagement with the European Union and UK Government, contributes to Accord projects and undertakes research as part of cross-organisational research programmes.

Time for a new peace paradigm for Colombia

In early November the Colombian army killed Alfonso Cano, the head of Farc (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia). While many argue this is another significant step towards ending the bloodshed and instability caused by almost five decades of armed conflict, in reality nobody knows for sure what will follow. Responding to recent developments, Kristian Herbolzheimer of Conciliation Resources makes the case – originally published in a Guardian article – that Colombia needs to fundamentally rethink its approach and design a participatory peace process. While, “there are no ready recipes for building peace,” he writes, there is a need, “to keep trying innovative and inclusive approaches.”
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