Why Talking Peace is Essential and Why it is Threatened
By Insight on Conflict, October 7 2011
Guest post by Bill Richardson, Melanie Greenberg and Derek Brown.
Continuing Instability and Insecurity in the Congo
The Peace Appeal’s Steve Hege recently returned from the Congo, where he served as a member of the Group of Experts mandated by the United Nations Security Council to investigate violations of the arms embargo and the current state of armed conflict in
Sri Lanka: Can Warriors Be Peacemakers?
Mar 10, 2010: With General Sarath Fonseka's arrest following the Jan. 26th presidential election, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has indicated his lack of interest in transforming himself from warrior to peacemaker.
Sri Lanka: An Urgent Appeal
10/03/2009. An open letter to the government of Sri Lanka towards the end of the Civil War.
The Dream of the Good is a peace and health methodology and a network project that has grown out of the charitable organization Det andra - in cooperation with The Peace Appeal Foundation - as a model for the development of a creative global peace education. The project engages principals, teachers, recreation leaders and preschool staff and supports them in introducing the methodology to students of all ages.
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) is one of the world’s leading institutions in the areas of security sector reform (SSR) and security sector governance (SSG).
The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.
In 2004, there were 230 political conflicts worldwide, including 3 wars and 33 severe crisis,
characterized by massive amounts of violence.
