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Event: Civil Society, Peace and the Basque Country - London, 4 June

May 2013

Tuesday 4 June 2013, 6.30pm-8pm

Committee Room 18, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0AA

Chair: Lord Alderdice 

Some eighteen months after the Aiete Conference and ETA's definitive cessation of armed action, civil society in the Basque country organised a social forum to promote civil society participation in the peace process. The Forum addressed three outstanding topics:

Film screening at SOAS: Memories Without Borders

Mar 2013
Join us at SOAS on Friday 22 March 2013 for a film screening of Memories Without Borders, a documentary film made by Turkish, Armenian and Azerbaijani filmmakers.

Armenia and Azerbaijan: what can societies do when political judgement errs?

Sep 2012

Following his conviction for a brutal murder in 2004, Ramil Safarov's presidential pardon is a new low-point for those working towards a peaceful resolution of Armenia and Azerbaijan's conflict over Nagorny Karabakh. Laurence Broers analyses the impact of this case and looks at how projects like Dialogue Through Film must try and rebuild the trust that has unraveled.

Армения и Азербайджан: что могут делать сами общества в ситуации, когда политики допускают серьезные промахи?

Sep 2012
Недавнее помилование президентом Азербайджана Рамиля Сафарова, осужденного за убийство в 2004 году, является новым ударом для всех, кто работает на дело мирного урегулирования армяно-азербайджанского конфликта вокруг Нагорного Карабаха. Лоренс Броерс анализирует значимость дела Сафарова и рассуждает о том, могут ли и как такие проекты, как “Кинодиалоги”, помочь восстановлению утраченного доверия.

Dialogue Through Film: A Handbook

Sep 2012

Dialogue Through Film brings together young Armenians and Azerbaijanis to make short films about the conflict that divides them. Dialogue Through Film: A Handbook offers supportive materials to be used at film screenings of any of the 20 short films in the Dialogue Through Film series.

Dialogue Through Film: A Handbook

Sep 2012

Dialogue Through Film brings together young Armenians and Azerbaijanis to make short films about the conflict that divides them. Dialogue Through Film: A Handbook offers supportive materials to be used at film screenings of any of the 20 short films in the Dialogue Through Film series.

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.

Dealing with Lebanon's past: remembering, reconciliation, art and activism

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
Sune Haugbølle reviews Lebanese efforts to pursue reconciliation and deal with the past. He explores issues of memory and remembering: Lebanon’s ‘state-sponsored amnesia’ over the war years; and the role of culture and of civil society in documenting and discussing them. Haugbolle considers options to integrate civil and national reconciliation initiatives and to involve political elites, as well as the potential of rural and traditional conflict resolution structures to engage grassroots in national reconciliation processes.

Box 1 - Documenting memories of war: UMAM and The Hangar

Positive peace for Lebanon: reconciliation, reform and resilience
Jul 2012
Liliane Kfoury illustrates Lebanese civil initiatives for memorialisation by describing the Association for Documentation and Research (UMAM D & R), which gathers wartime testimonies of combatants, politicians, civilians, the displaced and relatives of missing people, in order to help preserve collective memory of the war.

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