The Voice of Peace: grassroots news and views from East and Central Africa - Apr-Jun 2015
June 2015
This issue of the Voice of Peace highlights the vital role that civil society organisations are playing in conflict affected areas to address the causes and effects of violence. From South Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR) we hear how local groups are leading diverse initiatives to reconcile people previously abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) with host communities. In South Sudan, traditional Azande ceremonies bring people together. In CAR tailoring classes help returnees find their place.
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We report how civil society in DRC held the provincial government to account for letting the roads to fall into disrepair. Its ban on tax payments pushed local authorities to act. Finally we see how lessons from the LRA affected areas are feeding into the global debate on how to make international peace missions more effective.
Contents
- Regional security review: April - June 2015
- Overcoming post-war depression in northern Uganda
- DRC civil society takes on the taxman
- Reintegration in CAR one stitch at a time
- The future of peacemaking: lessons from Central Africa
- About the Voice of Peace
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