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In many conflicts around the world, groups are divided along religious lines – Catholic and Protestants in Northern Ireland, Muslims, Animists and Christians in Sudan, Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Bosnia-Herzegovina. But have these conflicts been motivated by religion, or have other divides happened to fall along religious lines? What has been the role [...]
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Archive: November, 2009
Religious cooperation and peace
IDP camps to be opened
News from Sri Lanka: The Sri Lanka government has announced that 130,000 people in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Sri Lanka will be given the freedom to go in and out of the camps next month, by order of the President, Mahinda Rajapakse. I have grown up in this era of war in Sri [...]
World Peace Festival
I’d like to let everyone know about this unprecedented 3-day event to take place August 27-29 2010 in Berlin. Local peace builders are invited to present their work. See www.worldpeacefestival.org Posted by Scilla Elworthy, 17 November 2009 Share this page:
Visit of Melanne Verveer
Along with other women journalists in New Delhi today, I had the chance to speak with Melanne Verveer, the Ambassador-at-Large of the US State Department for Global Women’s Issues. She spoke of how the Obama Administration is ‘mainstreaming’ the women’s agenda and ensuring that it be included within defence, diplomacy and strategic planning. I asked her [...]
Visit of peacebuilder from Mozambique
Next week (from November 9th 2009) Peace Direct has arranged for the visit to the UK of Albino Forquilha of the peacebuilding organisation FOMICRES from Mozambique. FOMICRES have had some remarkable successes in the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of combatants. Albino will be speaking at a number of events, including at SOAS and for the [...]
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