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What’s in a label? EU listing of Hezbollah and challenges to Lebanon’s peace

Jun 2013
With the European Union reportedly meeting this week – June 2013 – to discuss whether to add Hezbollah to its list of terrorist organisations, Zahbia Yousuf and Sophie Haspeslagh highlight the limits of such a blunt tool.

Event: Conflict prevention and the EU – what role for the UK?

Apr 2013

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 11am–3.30pm. Westminister, London

  • Session 1: The role of the EEAS in conflict prevention and peacebuilding
    Chair: Phil Vernon, International Alert
  • Session 2: Supporting conflict prevention and peacebuilding through EU development assistance
    Chair: David Newton, Conciliation Resources

For full event details and RSVP instructions please download the draft agenda.

Call for a genuine peace process in the DRC and the Great Lakes Region

Feb 2013

The recent escalation of violence in the eastern Congo has displaced over 700,000 people since April 2012 and resulted in an untold number of rapes, killings and other human rights violations. The conflict is complex but the fundamental underlying causes remain the same:  poor governance, violent competition for land and natural resources, impunity for serious human rights abuses, and outside interference.

Lebanon: a fate beyond its control? (Open Security)

Sep 2012
With violence in Syria making the headlines, Zahbia Yousuf and Marie-Joelle Zahar examine to what extent Lebanon can be responsible for its own fate, plus who's working to build peace, and how.

Bringing peace into the post-2015 development framework: A joint statement

Sep 2012

Civil society organisations in the International Dialogue for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS), of which Conciliation Resources is part, have coordinated a statement that argues for the integration of peacebuilding and violence prevention into the post-Millennium Development Goals framework.

Reconciliation, reform and resilience: Positive peace for Lebanon (Accord 24) - English version

Jul 2012

Lebanon’s model of post-war power sharing and liberal economic growth has been widely praised. But it has failed to deliver for most Lebanese. Repeated outbreaks of political violence since the 1989 Taif Peace Agreement, and today fear of spillover from insecurity in Syria, show that a fundamentally different approach is needed to transform negative and precarious stability in Lebanon into positive and resilient peace.

Policy brief – Reconciliation, reform and resilience: Positive peace for Lebanon

Jul 2012
A fundamentally different approach is needed to transform precarious stability in Lebanon into durable peace. Repeated outbreaks of political violence since the 1989 Taif Peace Accord show that Lebanon’s model of power sharing and liberal economic growth, while widely praised, has in reality failed to deliver a noticeable peace dividend. This 6-page policy brief summarises the findings of Accord 24 and sets out 10 priorities for change.

Recommendations for the UN's report on peacebuilding

Jul 2012

Conciliation Resources has submitted reflections and recommendations to the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, which is leading the development of the UN Secretary-General’s Report on Peacebuilding in the Aftermath of Conflict.  

This UN report will update the Secretary’s General’s 2009 and 2010 reports on Peacebuilding in the Immediate Aftermath of Conflict, as well as his 2010 report on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding, and set a forward vision that addresses evolving and longer-term challenges for peacebuilding.

Reconciliation, reform and resilience: Positive peace for Lebanon (Accord 24) - Arabic version

Jul 2012

Lebanon’s model of post-war power sharing and liberal economic growth has been widely praised. But it has failed to deliver for most Lebanese. Repeated outbreaks of political violence since the 1989 Taif Peace Agreement, and today fear of spillover from insecurity in Syria, show that a fundamentally different approach is needed to transform negative and precarious stability in Lebanon into positive and resilient peace.

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