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News bulletin spring 2008
New publications and materials from CR
Recent highlights
Upcoming events
In memory of Sahr Johnbull
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New publications and materials from CR
Dialogue through film DVD
Making short films for a unique project on the conflict over Nagorny Karabakh
has given young Karabakh Armenians and Azerbaijanis a rare chance to talk
directly and get to know each other. A selection of their films is now
available on DVD and will be shown throughout the South Caucasus in 2008.
Charting the hopes, fears and humour of people living with the consequences
of conflict, “these films show that we might have different aspirations
but war is not the way to solve our conflict”. more...
New Accord issue and policy brief
Conciliation Resources' latest Accord publication and policy brief, published
in March, explore how the use of incentives, sanctions and conditionality
can underpin or undermine peacemaking. Drawing upon cases such as Darfur,
Sri Lanka, northern Uganda, South Africa and Georgia-Abkhazia, it concludes
that these tools are rarely effective unless they form part of a wider
strategy that makes support for a durable peace process its priority. more...
Building paths to peace online
Our recently published book about the pioneering work of our partner Bo Peace and Reconciliation Movement (BPRM) in southern Sierra Leone is now available to read online. The book will be officially launched at an event in Freetown on 22 April 2008. It features lessons learned and success stories from BPRM’s community peace monitors, who have resolved and prevented over 1000 cases of armed violence and local disputes.
more...
Training course for UK government conflict advisers
CR Policy Adviser Catherine Barnes led a three-day residential training course
in March on peace processes and conflict transformation, held at the request
of the UK Department for International Development. Co-organized by CR and
North South Consultants Exchange, the course indicates the UK government's
growing interest in improving its support for peace processes. Read more about
our work on learning from peace processes and
influencing UK peacemaking
policy.
Invitation to review UK Public Service Agreement on conflict
CR's Executive Director Andy Carl has been invited by the UK Prime
Minister's Delivery Unit to be part of an external review team looking
at its Public Service Agreement on conflict. The team will assess
the government's capacity to achieve its commitments and make recommendations
on any changes required.
Crossing boundaries: civil society and
the security sector
CR will host a sub-regional conference on civil society and security sector reform
cooperation from 30 April -1 May 2008 in Freetown with speakers from Sierra Leone,
Liberia and Guinea. The conference is part of our wider ongoing Strengthening
Citizens’ Security
project with three local partners, which aims to make the security sector more
accessible and accountable to ordinary people in the region.
Our colleague Sahr Johnbull, 32, sadly passed away in March 2008. Originally from Kono district, Sierra Leone, he had worked in CR’s Freetown office for the past seven years and was Assistant Finance and Administrative Officer. He was a valued and much-loved member of our Sierra Leonean team and will be greatly missed. We offer our deepest sympathies to his wife Isata and two children Sahr and Fatmata.
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