This Spring issue of the CCTS newsletter features three articles on aspects of conflict transformation support work. The first relates to the Balkans region, the other two focus on current work in, or related to, the Caucasus. Also featured is the full version of the review by Michael Randle of Howard Clark's recent book on civil resistance in Kosovo.
Innocence and experience - the volunteer project Pakrac, grassroots peacebuilding in Croatia, 1993 - 1997
An extended summary by Nick Wilson of his evaluative report to be published shortly on the Pakrac Project in West Slavonia in the 1990s.
Healing as part of conflict transformation
Roswitha Jarman gives a personal account of the work she and others are doing to help children in Chechnya to cope with the traumas of war.
The Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development
Chris Hunter describes the work of the Centre for Peacemaking and Community Development which, since it was founded in 1985, has focussed on conflict prevention, conflict resolution and the support of victims of conflict in Russia, primarily in the North Caucasus region.
Civil Resistance in Kosovo: Book Review - Full Text
Reviewed here by Michael Randle, Howard Clark's Civil Resistance in Kosovo traces the course of almost a decade of nonviolent resistance by the Albanian population, from the annulment by Serbia of Kosovo's autonomous status in 1989 to the NATO war of intervention in 1999. An abbreviated version of this review appeared in the printed newsletter.
Download this review as a PDF document here