Whether or not you live somewhere impacted by violent conflict, you can almost certainly relate to feelings of division and hostility within your society. The rise of social media, increasing inequality and other factors are fuelling anger, a lack of tolerance and polarisation in many countries.
Under the framework of the European Resources for Mediation Support Contract, mediatEUr supported the analysis of the peace dynamics in CAR to inform AU, UN and EU engagement in support of the peace agreement implementation.
In 2021, mediatEUr became Conciliation Resources EU/mediatEUr.
The unseen value of peace assistance.
Canan Gündüz is a Mediation and Peace Process expert and a former project manager at mediatEUr.
In 2021, mediatEUr became Conciliation Resources EU/mediatEUr.
Martin Leng worked as an intern at mediatEUr in 2016.
In 2021, mediatEUr became Conciliation Resources EU/mediatEUr.
The Ukraine Dialogue Support Platform is an online and in-country platform that helps Ukrainian dialogue actors connect with each other, explore their needs, and communicate with national actors and the international community, utilising interactive, modern dialogue technologies.
Brendan McAllister, in an interview with Lynn Finnegan, reflects on a conversation he had with the Dalai Lama in Northern Ireland, who was there on a peace mission sitting in with a Catholic priest: "This is what mediation is trying to facilitate - enabling the process to see beyond what is evident and rather, to become informed by their own inferiority". You can access this beautiful article here: The Art of Mediation.
One of the pillars of the European Union’s external policy is the promotion of democracy. The EU conditions its assistance to the quality of democratic practice, the emblem of which is electoral behaviour and the institutions that support free and fair elections.
The recent announcement of the Libyan National Transitional Council’s 24-minister cabinet reveals a complex power-balance in the interim government between the country’s regions; those who fought during the anti-Gaddafi insurgency; as well as financial interests.
Over the coming months, the new cabinet has set itself the urgent tasks of:
Election violence has received much attention over recent years. It is seen universally as a vital problem to address within the democratisation process, but its complexities and sensitivities have as yet not been fully addressed: still the international community is faced with the challenge of identifying feasible and timely responses in the face of election-related tensions and violence.
