News and Insight

Young people who have experienced conflict firsthand have a vital role to play in peacebuilding. They have a clear vision of what peace could look like in their countries and communities, and have the drive to work towards the realisation of these goals. 

At Conciliation Resources we are pleased to announce the appointment of two new members of our executive management team. Tim Hansen joins us as Chief Operating Officer, and Kathryn Tomlinson starts as our new Director of Programmes.

This week Conciliation Resources jointly hosted a roundtable at Chatham House to examine the challenges around engaging with non-state armed groups in the pursuit of peace.

In September, ten peacebuilders travelled from Kenya to West Africa to learn from each other’s challenges and successes, to help them build more peaceful and inclusive societies. In this film, they share what they learnt.

Statebuilding and peacebuilding discussions increasingly emphasise inclusion as a key ingredient for peaceful states and societies, and marginalisation as a key cause of conflict. However, the persistence of conflict and violence in many borderland regions can defy and challenge these peacebuilding blueprints.

A year after the signing of the Colombian peace agreement, women from diverse sectors of Colombian society met last week at a conference in London to celebrate their achievements so far and look at the challenges ahead.

A shared statement by peacebuilders working in the South Caucasus

En un programa de la televisión pública catalana el director del programa de Transiciones a la Paz de Conciliation Resources, Kristian Herbolzheimer, compartió sus reflexiones sobre las dificultades y las oportunidades de diálogo en el conflicto de auto-determinación de Cataluña.

ABColombia, a coalition of organisations supporting human rights in Colombia, will host a public conference in London next month in association with Conciliation Resources.