Mediation
Search For Common Ground (SFCG) – Ivory Coast
Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international peacebuilding organisation that entered the Ivory Coast in 2005 with the primary goal of reducing tensions among communities and groups, to facilitate reconciliation, strengthen social cohesion and empower Ivoirians to be in charge of mediation in their own conflicts. Working with a two-pronged approach aimed primarily at [...] Read more >>>
African Union Club – Ivory Coast (UACI)
The African Union Club was established in June 1998 with the intention of bringing African civil society together to appropriate the values of the pan-African organisation such as democracy, human rights, promotion of gender and youth, the fight against poverty, economic and political unity of Africa. The African Union Club runs campaigns for civic education [...] Read more >>>
Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium (BCRC)
The formation of the Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium (BCRC) in 2007 came as a result of over 12 months discussions between republican, loyalist and community activists engaged in conflict management at Belfast’s interfaces. These discussions focused on the need to provide a citywide approach enabling longer term strategies rather than short term isolated actions at [...] Read more >>>
When will we have justice in DR Congo?
The whole of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and in particular the Eastern provinces, lives in a constant state of fear and emergency, due to impunity at a high level. Local people – particularly women, who are subject to widespread human rights abuses – do not know which authorities to rely on. The world [...] Read more >>>
The Magic River Between Two Tribes
From Conflict to Peace and Harmony The war that started in DR Congo in 1996 has planted hatred in the hearts of people across the country and caused long hidden conflicts between people, tribes and communities to resurface. Conflicts are started for lots of reasons: economic inequalities, power-grabbing, cultural differences and land disputes – no [...] Read more >>>
Land Conflict Solved in Swima
Swima is a beautiful village on the coast of Lake Tanganyika in the territory of Fizi. It is also a land of conflict where violence and disputes can easily destabilise the whole village for days. This article focuses on a land conflict which arose in Swima between two groups of people after the war and [...] Read more >>>
