Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, we have expanded in size to reach more than 130 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents.
Twenty years after the adoption of the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, women remain significantly underrepresented in peace processes. Conciliation Resources is working alongside other INGOs as part of the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund to deliver a series of grants to address the funding gap on women’s participation in peace processes.
The Women, Peace and Security Helpdesk is a call-down facility that provides high-quality, evidence informed analysis and expertise on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and gender issues to different UK government teams. Specifically, the helpdesk can support the gender sensitivity of, and integration of gender transformation into, conflict and security-focused policy and programming, and boost UK capacity to advance its Women, Peace and Security National Action Plan.
Mohamed was born in the Somali Region of Ethiopia and grew up in Kenya. He has vast experience in project management, logistics and human rights advocacy, and previously worked as the head of accounting and as a project manager for two private companies in Nairobi. In addition, he has worked as a consultant for Human Rights Watch and the Association for Criminal Justice providing case management and translation services to victims of human rights abuses. He is currently studying accounting and criminology.
This report presents the results of a small-scale research project carried out by Public Agenda, a Yerevan-based non-governmental organisation, in July-November 2021. It is part of an initiative to capture and understand bottom-up, community-based perceptions of the causes and consequences of the 2020 Karabakh war, as well as perspectives on dialogue and peacebuilding.
Despite a growing bank of evidence of the interplay between the climate crisis and conflicts, and the need to consider this intersection in climate responses, still little is actually being done. Conciliation Resources joined a network of organisations in Stockholm in May and June 2022 to make the case for peacebuilding and conflict sensitivity in climate change policy.
Implementing peace deals is essential for sustaining peace and preventing recurrence of violence. But experience shows that implementation often gets stuck or breaks down. This edition of Accord Spotlight offers some practical alternatives to avoid blockages – from ‘decentralised implementation’ to multiple monitoring mechanisms.
The complex connections between the climate crisis and conflict were explored during a recent event organised by Conciliation Resources, hosted by law firm Linklaters LLP. The lively discussion focused on the human costs of conflicts fuelled by the climate crisis, and the positive ways that those who are affected are working to respond to them.
