News and Insight

Nearly two decades since the end of conflict in Liberia, women’s voices aren’t being fully heard as the country strives for truth and reconciliation. Conciliation Resources, as a partner of the Women Peace and Humanitarian Fund’s Rapid Response Window, is supporting the awarding of short-term grants to two civil society organisations - the Women’s NGO Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL) and Liberia Future Trust (LiFT) - with the aim of making the national reconciliation process more inclusive.

Our #SeeTheHuman event series focuses on the real-life experiences of those who have been on the front lines of war and who have managed to bring people together across divides to create peace.

Our Public Empowerment and Community Engagement (PEaCE) for Good Governance project has been working with communities to establish a network of Community Security Working Groups. These groups are open to anyone in the community and provide people with the skills and tools to resolve conflicts and develop better engagement with local government.

The Community Security Toolkit is a guide for developing and mobilising community security activities in the Philippines’ Bangsamoro region to prevent violence and build peace.

Belgium-based mediation support organisation, mediatEUr has been renamed Conciliation Resources EU to reflect its closer working partnership with international peacebuilding NGO, Conciliation Resources. 

Conciliation Resources is pleased to support the transition of the Women Mediators across the Commonwealth (WMC) network to the London School of Economics, Centre for Women Peace and Security (LSE WPS).

Our #SeeTheHuman event series focuses on the real-life experiences of those who have been on the front lines of war and who have managed to bring people together across divides to create peace.

Whether or not you live somewhere impacted by violent conflict, you can almost certainly relate to feelings of division and hostility within your society. The rise of social media, increasing inequality and other factors are fuelling anger, a lack of tolerance and polarisation in many countries.

“I cannot advocate for non-violence and then join the armed group.” In late 2020, the emergence of a new rebel movement led to a fresh escalation of violence in the Central African Republic (CAR). Like many other young men (and some young women), Christophe* felt pressure to join them.

We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of our long-term partner and friend Avaz Hasanov, and convey our sincere and heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

Adi Vasulevu is the Executive Director of Transcend Oceania, a peacebuilding organisation based in Fiji. As part of ongoing discussions around COP26, we spoke to Adi about her work and the challenges facing Fijians including climate change and COVID-19.

As politicians, scientists and activists meet in Glasgow to discuss tackling climate change at COP26, Florence Swamy argues that we must not forget about the people on the frontlines of the climate emergency.