Centre for Peacebuilding and Reconciliation (CPBR).

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CPBR aims to bridge divisions in Sri Lanka by creating networked peacebuilding groups in diverse areas of the country, simultaneously empowering communities to address their own needs and raising awareness of the similarity of such needs across the country’s ethnic boundaries.

CPBR conducts workshops, dialogues, gatherings and camps on peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Through these methods they aim to promote awareness, empower, mobilise, strengthen and unite different groups of people belonging to all ethnicities and religions from different parts of the country in achieving a just, acceptable political solution to the ethnic conflict. CPBR’s approach is to select groups that can make a powerful impact on the conflict and to work with them, enabling them to gradually expand through widespread networking to make their shared vision come true.

CPBR workshop

CPBR aims to strengthen, mobilise and network these particular multi-ethnic, multi-religious groups around the country to promote and demand a political solution to the ethnic conflict, based on equality, justice and inclusion. The aim is that each group will take responsibility for the task initiated by CPBR and create a social movement for peace. A social movement for peace emerging from the people is CPBR’s ultimate objective.

Young Visionaries

The Young Visionaries programme trains young people to be leaders in conflict transformation. The Young Visionaries are trained in conflict transformation and non-violent direct action skills, and also in how to find spaces for peacebuilding.