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Kamenge Youth Centre continues to play a key role in reconciliation and home rebuilding in the five northern communes of Bujumbura by organizing habitual work camps which gather thousands of participants. This year however, things were not easy for a number of reasons. Firstly, the prolonged strike in public secondary schools has disorganized academic schedules and meant [...]
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Posts Tagged ‘Burundi’
Struggling for peace in a troubled context
A period of uncertainty in Burundi
Burundians are living in fear since the announced victory of CNDD-FDD in local polls in late May; the result has been contested by the opposition, who say that the vote had been rigged. Several grenade attacks have targeted bars, residences and public areas in the recent days. It is reported that 6 people have died and [...]
Human Rights Watch Representative Asked to Leave Burundi
The Burundian government has canceled work permit of Neela Ghoshal, Human Right Watch’s representative in Burundi and asked her to leave the country by the 5th of June. This decision follows the publication of a HRW’s report on pre-electoral violence last week describing violent clashes between rival youth wings, including the ruling party CNDD-FDD and [...]
Unprecedented massive naturalization
“Historic action”, that’s how UNHCR and analysts have called the decision of Tanzanian government to grant citizenship to more that 162,000 Burundian refugees who have been living there for nearly four decades now. Visiting the Katumba settlement of the so called “1972 Burundian refugees” last Thursday, UN High Commissionner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres praised the [...]
Stories
From the Editors Burundi Early Warning Election Project, April 2010 The last couple of years have seen a number of highly impressive developments in the use of mobile phones to monitor conflicts and humanitarian disasters. Now, the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams has created the Burundi Early Warning Project to [...]
National Olympic Committee
The National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a local branch of the International Olympic Committee. Their mission is to promote the Olympic Charter, to develop training facilities for athletes, and to encourage participation in competitive sports at different levels. Through this they aim to promote a culture of peace, and the associated values of social development, [...]
Bujumbura Diocese Development Organisation (ODDBU)
ODDBU is a branch of the Catholic diocese of Bujumbura focusing on development issues. Their mission is to promote peace through socio-economic growth by involving communities in their own development. By providing stable livelihoods ODDBU hope to reduce the number of factors that lead to violent conflict. Conflict Resolution through Farming Burundi faces a crisis [...]
Eirene International
Eirene is an international ecumenical organisation working for peace and development. It was created in 1957 in Chicago, and began its activities in Burundi in early 2000, collaborating with a local association called Nduwamahoro-Le Non Violent Actif to help rural communities resolve conflict peacefully. Their primary activities are training sessions on conflict transformation, non-violent communication [...]
Maud Roure On Burundi
Interpeace had been working in Rwanda on a dialogue and research programme for three years when in 2004, the Burundian Ambassador asked them to start a similar programme in Burundi. After the 2005 elections in Burundi they started looking for a partner organisation. The essence of the programme was to work with civil society organisations [...]
Conflict Alert & Prevention Centre (CENAP)
Founded in 2002, the Conflict Alert and Prevention Centre (CENAP) is a non-partisan NGO which analyses and mitigates conflict in Burundi. We promote sustainable development through research into conflict, facilitating dialogue, and conflict resolution. We work closely with other local, regional, and international peacebuilding organisations. We have carried out various projects, and have appointed five [...]
