Conciliation Resources’ work in the Somali Regional State of Ethiopia has been nominated for a prestigious Charity Award, the longest running award scheme in the charity sector.
Contemporary conflict in northwestern Central African Republic is driven by local dynamics. Armed groups are fluid and informal, often starting as an organic expression of community needs for protection or revenge but over time turning to banditry to survive. Individuals involved with groups are predominantly young and frequently unarmed, and the line between combatant and non-combatant is shifting and difficult to establish.
The UK Government has stopped funding a vital programme working to prevent violence and build peace in three of the world’s most fragile states.
Norhanie Mamasabulod Taha is a member of the Community Safety Working Group for Barangay Long in the Philippines. She is also Chairperson for the Persons with Disabilities Affairs Office, Municipality of Pagalungan, Maguindanao and lives with restricted mobility following a childhood accident.
There are currently around one billion women and girls, men and boys, and sexual and gender minorities with disabilities. To date, very little attention has been paid to the meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in peacebuilding processes, the factors and dynamics that contribute to their inclusion or exclusion, the challenges of ensuring effective representation, and the most successful mechanisms for inclusion.
Successful peacebuilding relies heavily on individuals with the right expertise investing time in building relationships and crafting processes over the long-term. Many institutional donors impose unrealistic caps in peacebuilding project budgets on staff costs, relative to costs for more visible activities, such as travel, subsistence and outputs. The report examines three potential models for measuring and accounting to demonstrate the value of peacebuilders’ time.
Over the last 25 years we’ve worked with partners in conflict-affected contexts to support inclusive and sustainable peace. We’ve found that an intersectional approach to gender-sensitive conflict analysis – one that includes masculinities – can help understand and address the power imbalances among and between women, men and other gender identities that drive or contribute to violence.
The integration of gender into peacebuilding programmes is still mostly synonymous with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda. And while women’s meaningful inclusion and participation in peace processes is essential to building sustainable peace, women’s rights organisations and some peacebuilding organisations have long realised that the connection between masculinities, violence and militarism also needs to be addressed to reduce violence in all its forms.
News that the two nuclear powers of India and Pakistan have agreed to observe a ceasefire across the Line of Control was an unexpected turn in Kashmir’s long history of conflict. It’s a small step in the right direction in one of the most militarised regions of the world. But for a lasting and sustainable peace in Kashmir, the people living at the centre of this conflict need to be involved in building their own future.
