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  • 8 Mar 2013
    Women's struggle for equality and peace marked in Sierra Leone

    A team of UN agency representatives has arrived in Sierra Leone to support gender equality and promote the role of women in peace building.

  • 6 Jul 2010
    Peace institute to launch religion and reconciliation programme

    The idea of reconciliation has deep roots in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and other faiths, says the director of a new research programme on religion and peacebuilding.

  • 14 Apr 2010
    Seeking viable peace amidst turmoil in Kyrgyzstan

    Kyrgyzstan’s government has fallen, its provisional rulers are untested, and there is as yet no sign of a lasting political settlement, writes John Heathershaw. Yet that does not mean it will automatically follow the example of neighbour Tajikistan and descend into civil war. Peace is difficult but possible.

  • 22 Mar 2010
    Confusing war-making with peace-building

    MPs have left received wisdoms unquestioned in their latest report, which frames war-fighting as peace-building, writes John Heathershaw. This idea is quite modern and in keeping with the spirit of our post-colonial age. Yet its consequence is to mainstream peace-building as a strategy to extend world order without questioning the resultant injustices. There is an alternative.

  • 3 May 2008
    In War and Peace: the hard edge of peace-making in Northern Ireland

    “Some people think that peace-making is easy, but in my experience it requires toughness and resolution, as well as sympathy and integrity.”

  • 5 Mar 2008
    Mennonites assist peace-building for Kenya's tribes and churches

    Forty pastors from five different tribes and denominations met for a peace-building seminar at the Eastleigh Fellowship Centre, located in a semi-slum area of Nairobi, recently. The centre facilitates church and community programmes.