Khaled Magumpara

Khaled joined Conciliation Resources as a Programme Support Officer for our Philippines programme. He also supports our work in Fiji and the Solomon Islands with a focus on project and financial management, MEL and gender. Khaled has worked in the humanitarian and development sector for more than eight years in areas of project management related to peacebuilding, education, policy, gender and protection. Through his work, Khaled continues his involvement with youth empowerment and mental health and psychosocial support to people in the Bangsamoro.

Rahmatullah Arsalan

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Rahmatullah is our Senior Finance Officer. He has over 13 years of finance experience, working with UN agencies, the public sector, and large international donor-funded programmes across diverse international environments, including conflict zones and developed nations such as Afghanistan, Palestine (Gaza), Syria, Ukraine, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA.

Myra Karani

Myra is the Operations and Compliance Officer for our Africa Department. She has over 11 years of experience in operational management, administration, human resources and compliance within the development sector. Myra has a proven track record of optimising administrative functions and ensuring operational efficiency, particularly in her roles as Administration and Facilities Officer, Administration and Human Resource Coordinator and Executive Assistant at Open Society-Africa.

Graeme Ramshaw

Graeme Ramshaw is the Director of Quality and Innovation at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), where he has worked since 2014. He is responsible for the development and management of WFD’s monitoring and evaluation systems, as well as advising on the strengthening of programme quality and cross-organisational learning. He has over 12 years of experience in international development, with a specific focus on governance and democracy support. Prior to joining WFD, he was a Learning Advisor for the UK Department for International Development’s Governance and Transparency Fund.

Caroline Brooks

Caroline Brooks is a peacebuilding and conflict transformation practitioner. She is currently a Senior Advisor at Amnesty International where she advises leaders on conflict transformation, crisis management, wellbeing, and organisational development. Prior to joining Amnesty, Caroline was the Syria Programme Manager at International Alert, where she worked on multi-track diplomacy and inclusive peace processes. She is a fellow of the OSCE’s inaugural Women Peace Leaders Programme, which promotes women’s roles in mediation.

Climate change and peacebuilding in Fiji

Climate change is having clear and increasing impacts on communities in the Pacific but with the focus on technical solutions the social impacts and possible links to conflict are often overlooked. This practice paper presents the achievements and learnings from almost five years of work in Fiji examining how climate change has been affecting rural and urban communities and what peacebuilding approaches may be needed to mitigate related conflict risks and promote culturally and conflict sensitive engagement of affected communities. The paper outlines and explores conflict drivers such as the use of land and resources; climate induced (im)mobility; extreme weather events; local governance; and crisis governance.

Climate change and conflict risks in Bougainville

This practice paper outlines Conciliation Resources’ analysis and learnings of climate change and conflict risks in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (Bougainville). These include socio-environmental changes in use of land and sea, climate change related migration and displacement, governance challenges, community capacities for managing and resolving conflict, and the potential to see an increase in Sorcery Accusations Related Violence (SARV) as climate change impacts are more acutely felt. It also explores Bougainville’s conflict history, ongoing peace process and socio-cultural landscape.

Part 3: Borderlands of Nigeria and the Chad Basin - Priorities for pastoralists’ and farmers’ peace and security

Peace and security for pastoralist communities in African borderlands

Land governance is an important element of peace and security in the borderlands of northern Nigeria, to enable of animals to be moved peacefully between grazing areas and water points, and for herders and farmers to have access to land, through user rights or ownership. Deficiencies and irregularities in land governance, which includes the seizing of farmland and grazing land from local people by politicians, are contributing to insecurity.

Part 3: Borderlands of Nigeria and the Chad Basin - Borderlands in focus

Peace and security for pastoralist communities in African borderlands

This section dives deeper into how pastoralists organise and network to manage and move herds peacefully and productively in borderlands and across borders of northern Nigeria, and explores patterns of insecurity and response in selected borderland areas, based on field research. It is structured around the three main geographies of the fieldwork.

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