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A newsletter to keep the people of Northern Ireland informed about human rights and non-violence locally and internationally.
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A programme to integrate human rights principles into all community conflict resolution work.
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A series of training workshops, seminars, exhibitions and youth camps aimed at promoting peace, conservation and trust between communities.
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This initiative in Damazin provided training in how to be effective at resolving conflicts. This included practicalities such as setting up projects, proposal writing, and fundraising.
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This self-help group for IDPs helps young men (who form the majority of combatants) to address issues of poverty and idleness in their lives, which in turn discourages them from engaging in violence in the community.
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This group responds quickly to conflict escalation in the Isiolo district, either through community liaison or non-violent direct action. It also advocates for the role of women in community peace-building.
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This initiative involved the Paralegal and Human Rights Centre facilitating a series of emergency meetings between a government representative and the leadership of the two tribes in order to end their recurring conflict over land use.
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The aim of this initiative is to prevent conflict breaking out over livestock issues in Samburu district. It runs restocking meetings to help those who lost livestock through drought, and uses these events to increase the pastoralists commitment to peaceful living.
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This initiative aims to promote better knowledge of the EU and raise public awareness of European Integration and the need to meet EU membership conditions. It does this through strengthening the capacities of Kosovo Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) through encouraging sectoral partnerships, sustainable advocacy actions and EU/regional network involvement.
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This initiative supports local community involvement in the ongoing peace process in Nepal, at the same as attempting to build local capacities and redevelop village infrastructure.
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Through training and funding, YPBI aims to increase the influence of youths in the peace process.
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This Nepali organisation seeks to awaken people to the importance of women's rights and its relationship with successful peacebuilding.
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A programme to strengthen Nepali communities against engaging in conflict, with the aim of minimising the spread of fighting.
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This Nepali initiative sought to raise awareness of human rights at the community level as a vital component of peace-building. It incorporated a range of different activities, but all with an emphasis on mobilising the victims of conflict and the disadvantaged members of society.
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This initiative focuses on empowering peasant families in Colombia by integrating them into the modern economy through entrepreneurial partnerships with the private sector.
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In January 2007, the Forum for Human Rights, Environment and People's Awareness (HUREP) brought together local people, government and non-governmental officials, journalists and other stakeholders to discuss the impact of the conflict in Sankhuwa Sabha district. The participants of the conference produced and published a Peace Declaration on how to promote peace and democracy in the area.
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This Nepali initiative by the Children's Welfare Society - Khotang (CWS) equips local people with the skills needed to handle conflict without resorting to violence.
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A programme of training and funding to allow families to gain financial stability and useful vocations caused by war. The programme also encourages community-building by supporting different ethnicities working along side each other.
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Contact is a coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations created with the purpose of accumulating and disseminating knowledge on conflict and conflict transformation.
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A series of seminars and workshops run in order to train local communities and individuals in conflict transformation. It operates in rural Sri Lanka and works hard to bring together different ethnicities in the same training.
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An education and awareness campaign to discourage political violence and mobilise communities to vote for peace during the Sri Lankan elections.
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A cross-party workshop to raise awareness and discuss the roles of various sectors of the community in building peace. Participants discussed collaboration between community and religous leaders as a key element of peace building in Sudan, amongst other issues.
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A comprehensive programme of action to enhance the capability of Colombian civil society to engage positively and proactively with key issues facing the country.
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A programme of regular consultations between key stakeholders in the conflict, designed to facilitate agreement on points of difference and to explore informally the basis of a negotiated settlement.
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This initiative aims to re-establish business connections between Sinhalese, Muslims and Tamils, thereby reducing fears each ethnicity has of the other and building trust. Participants are selected from interested young farmers, fishermen and small-business people in different areas. They receive training on how to strengthen a multi ethnic society through commerce.
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This initiative works to reduce conflict within communities by educating their leadership figures in methods for obtaining peace through awareness, negotiation and reconciliation. The community leaders are taken on a field tour and take part in a training and workshop programme to educate them on methods they could employ to keep conflict at bay within their own villages.
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Election violence has been one of the main threats to community peace for many years. The Good Governance initiative deals with this head on by bringing community leaders and politicians together to put a stop to outbreaks of violence, giving the individual communities a political voice during the election process.
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A series of conferences aiming to find peaceful solutions to inter-tribal conflicts and to promote awareness of basic human rights.
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The JMC, through the media, seeks to improve the social status of Dalits in Nepal, and to campaign for their inclusion in the peace process.
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A project aiming to increase people's understanding of and participation in Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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A rapid response to the death of the SPLM leader, seeking to mitigate the risk of a violent reaction in Sudan.
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A series of workshops training various Sudanese groups in the principles and practice of non-violence.
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A series of workshops, lectures and other activities designed to encourage the emergence of a responsible leadership for Sudan.
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Through its support for local initatives this not-for-profit organisation aims to build a strong civil society movement that will promote a democratic culture and be responsive to the socio-economic needs of Kosovo.
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Friends in Need began as a tsunami disaster-relief project in Sri Lanka, but has built on its successes in community capacity building and development to focus on peacebuilding work.
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A programme of research, publications, grants and lectures designed to increase the links between young academics in universities in different parts of Sri Lanka.
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This initiative enables Nepali women to take on the role of community mediators. It has established a Gender Resource Centre and provided training, workshops and seminars to support local women's learning of rights and to build their capacity to be involved in the peace process.
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Since early 2003, this training programme has been running in three districts of Nepal to develop the capabilities of local peace practitioners to undertake conflict analysis and intervention planning.
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This Nepali initiative focuses on capacity building and lobbying; it better prepares civil society organisations and activists to resolve future conflicts, whilst also promoting conflict monitoring and enabling women to get more involved in the peace process.
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A 'business for peace' initiative. Colombian leather manufacturers have collaborated to offer a programme of training and employment opportunities for demobilised fighters. This assists with their reintegration into peaceful society and decreases the likelihood of them rejoining the conflict due to poverty or social alienation.
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PPF has helped to increase inter-ethnic sensitivity, understanding, and communication through the twinning of war-torn villages in Sri Lanka. Working with the Sinhalese community in Anuradhapura and Tamil community in Jaffna, they have established an exchange program for the reconstruction of damaged homes in these areas.
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This initiative focuses on building the capacity of NGO and INGO activists to support the peaceful resolution of the Nepali conflict and enable them to promote future peacebuilding measures.
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Information on initiatives in Valle del Cauca provided by el Banco de Buenas Prácticas para Superar el Conflicto (BPSC) as part of their collaboration with Insight on Conflict.
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This Nepali initiative supports the development of a peace network of civil society organisations to promote non-violence in the community, and helps to rehabilitate conflict victims through trauma healing.
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Information on initiatives in Cauca provided by el Banco de Buenas Prácticas para Superar el Conflicto (BPSC) as part of their collaboration with Insight on Conflict.
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This NGO network builds the capacity of grassroots civil society to respond to the challenges Kosovo faces, collectively improving its members' effectiveness in the peace process.
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This project works with the Tamil tea plantation workers in central Sri Lanka, organising training and community groups.
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An early warning system which allows the news of conflict or planned acts of violence to be disseminated as quickly as possible, and consequently acted upon.
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PPF organises residential workshops designed to raise public awareness of conflict transformation processes in Sri Lanka. Through this they aim to generate public support for a negotiated settlement to the ethnic conflict.
