Reconciliation

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 >>>

From the field My diary of Baghdad: sirens and music

Annet Henneman is founder, director and actress of Teatro di Nascosto – Hidden Theatre. For eight days she lived in Baghdad, working with a group of four young men from Baghdad to make a theatre reportage about the Voices of Baghdad. Here she explores what it means to live in this city and shares her experiences of her time in Baghdad. Iraq. Read more >>>

Interview Liberal peacebuilding and civil society in Sri Lanka

Civil society organisations have played a very active and at times controversial role in the peace process in Sri Lanka. According to Oliver Walton, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, much of the controversy has been caused by the relationship between civil society organisations and international donors. Oliver kindly agreed to be interviewed about his research. Read more >>>

National Ethnic Unity Foundation (NEUF)

National Ethnic Unity Foundation (NEUF) stated working in the early 1990’s and registered as a non-governmental organisation in 1996. They have 6 members of staff based in the office in Batticaloa and organised groups at the villages where they work. In their early years, NEUF had worked to raise awareness about the need for a [...] Read more >>>

Centre for East Lanka Social Services (CELSS)

The Centre for East Lanka Social Services (CELSS) started its work in 1994 to promote peace and understanding in the Ampara district and to support the rehabilitation of children, women and young people affected by the war. It is jointly formed by Tamil and Muslim youth who have directly experienced the conflict and have realised [...] Read more >>>

Deepaloka Foundation

Deepaloka Foundation was started in 1996 in the Ampara District and now it has spread to the North and Eastern Provinces. At the moment the organisation has 6 officers and 75 volunteers and is well established with a network of Community Based Organisations (CBO) based in over 180 Grama Niladhari Divisions. Deepaloka Foundation believes that the [...] Read more >>>

Sri Lanka Unites (SLU)

The Sri Lanka Unites movement brings together young people, aged 12 to 30, from different ethnic and religious groups to rise up, to give them a voice and to unify their efforts to strengthen the peace-building process in Sri Lanka. Emerging out of decades of great adversity, and a culture of suspicion and divisiveness, the [...] Read more >>>

Movimiento de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado (MOVICE)

The Movimiento de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado (MOVICE; ‘Movement of Victims of State-Sponsored Crimes’ in English), was born in 2005 in response to the continuation of the armed conflict and impunity for crimes committed during the conflict in Colombia. The movement seeks to highlight the plight of the victims, to give the victims a [...] Read more >>>

Community Foundation for Northern Ireland

Since 1979, the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland has supported projects and individuals involved in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Intimately involved in many ground breaking initiatives, the Foundation has a track record of administering European Union support funds for peace and reconciliation and currently administrates the From Prison to Peace Partnership and the SEARCH Project [...] Read more >>>