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News and events
Breaking down barriers
through film
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. A selection
of their films is now
available
on DVD and will be shown in 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.” |
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Powers of persuasion
Conciliation Resources' latest
Accord publication and policy
brief, published
in March 2008, explore how the use of incentives, sanctions and conditionality
can underpin or undermine peace processes. Drawing upon cases
such as Darfur, Sri Lanka, northern Uganda, South
Africa and Georgia-Abkhazia, it concludes
these tools are rarely effective unless they form part of a wider
strategy that makes support for a durable peace process its priority. |
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Building paths
to peace
Our recently published book about the
extraordinary work of one of our partners in Sierra Leone, the Bo Peace
and Reconciliation Movement (BPRM) is now available to read online. BPRM
is recognized at a national level for its pioneering work to prevent and
resolve more than 1000 cases of armed violence and community disputes. more... |
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Twelve artists,
one town – calendar
CR and Radio Soma, Abkhazia’s first independent radio station, have
produced a 2008 calendar featuring a collection of paintings of the
Abkhaz capital, Sukhum/i by Abkhaz, Georgian, Russian and Tartar artists
who lived there before the war, with some of their thoughts
on what the town means for them. more... |
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UN Peacebuilding
Commission
With more than 10 years’ experience of supporting local peacebuilding
in Sierra Leone, we recently brought policy concerns gleaned from
our work to the UN Peacebuilding Commission’s attention. This resulted
in some of our recommendations on youth and peacebuilding being included
in the final ‘Peacebuilding Cooperation Framework’ with Sierra Leone’s
government. Read
our submission |
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Talking with the
enemy
Conciliation Resources (CR) helped organize a meeting of the All
Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues in
December 2007 to discuss the importance of peace processes in dealing with
violent conflict and offer ways of addressing shortcomings in the UK's
current approach. With Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator for
the National Party in South Africa, and Catherine Barnes, author of Bridging
the gap: improving UK support for peace processes. |
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