Our partners in East and Central Africa
Conciliation Resources has relationships withpartners in the region dating back to 1997. This foundation of trust is essential and enables us to share information, ideas, critical analysis, and strategy between colleagues. It also allows us to give personal support to people working in conflict zones.
Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI)
A multi-faith organization (Muslim, Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox) led by the religious leaders of northern Uganda. We have worked closely with them to support peace committees in the camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and respond to emerging conflicts within these camps.
Justice and Peace Commission, Gulu Archdiocese (JPC)
A Catholic organization that runs justice and peacebuilding projects
in the camps for people displaced by the war. We support JPC to build
local practices for peace, justice, news dissemination and good cross-border
relations. We also support their reconciliation work addressing
inter-community fear and mistrust that has kept ethnic groups in Uganda
divided for decades.
The Justice and Peace Council, Ganal (JPC)
A Catholic organization that brings together representatives of the Justice and Peace Commissions of: Gulu Archdiocese (Acholiland), Nebbi and Arua Dioceses (West Nile) and Lira Diocese (Lango), for joint work on effective reconciliation and peacebuilding. We support its secretariat in Gulu, which acts as a liaison office for advocacy work, and coordinates two governance and accountability projects.
Ker Kwaro Acholi (KKA)
The organization of the Acholi traditional leaders in Uganda. We support
them in cross-border peacebuilding work to help strengthen ties between
the Ugandan Acholi and their Ugandan and Sudanese neighbours. We
believe such connections will allow more LRA abductees to return home.
Northern Uganda Advocacy Partnership for Peace (NUAPP)
A coalition of London-based non-government organizations with partners in northern Uganda: Conciliation Resources, Christian Aid, QPSW, World Vision and CAFOD. It aims to support processes for lasting peace, reconciliation, justice, and truth telling. NUAPP engages with the UK government, parliamentarians and others to ensure their interventions in the conflict are informed by and benefit northern Ugandans.
Totto Chan
Totto Chan is a child trauma centre in Juba, southern Sudan, with a longstanding link to UNICEF. They have assisted in the return of Ugandan former abductees from Sudan to Uganda and promote the interests of children and youth in this war-torn region. We are working with them to push forward partnership work on community peacebuilding in Sudan and with their Ugandan counterparts on cross-border collaboration.
Uganda Joint Christian Council
Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW)
Based in the UK but with an office in Gulu, QPSW works with many of our local partners as a resource for peace. They are our main collaborators on occasional research and analysis projects.
Past partners
Social Communications Department of Gulu Archdiocese
Social Communications is one of the departments in the Catholic Archdiocese
of Gulu in northern Uganda. It produces documentaries aimed
at both grassroots communities and policymakers. Its partnership
with Conciliation Resources between 2005-2008 involved interviewing local people
on topical issues and decisions affecting their daily lives for films which we used in our advocacy work at community, national
and international levels.
Kacoke Madit (KM)
KM is an organization of the international Acholi diaspora based in London. Using imaginative approaches such as web streaming of local radio broadcasts and sending diaspora volunteers to work in their communities of origin, they have been instrumental in educating the diaspora about the reality of the conflict and building an international Acholi agenda for peace.
