General News

Improving access to justice for Guinea's victims of sexual violence

Challenging the widespread culture of impunity

As part of the Human Security Project, International Alert Guinea recently held a series of workshops in the town of N’zerekore, in Guinea’s forest region, aimed at reducing sexual violence against women and improving access to justice for women and girl victims.

West Africa Team
Wed, 28/10/2009

How much will UK development policy change under a Conservative government?

A review of the Tories Green Paper by Alert's Secretary General

The Conservative Party is set fair to win next year’s UK general election. What will happen to development policy?

Dan Smith
Thu, 29/10/2009

Integrating gender into security sector reform in Burundi

A study on women's perceptions of security

International Alert Burundi recently carried out a study on women’s perceptions of security as part of its programme aimed at supporting local women’s organisations for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security.

Great Lakes Team
Fri, 30/10/2009

An update on Alert's peacebuilding work in the Philippines

The Philippines' month of peace

As part of our programme in the Philippines, Alert recently took part in the Philippines’ Month of Peace with many activities.

Day of Peace and World March for Peace and Non-Violence

Ed Garcia
Thu, 26/11/2009

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: creating conditions for building peace

The role of Russia

International Alert recently organised a public round table on Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: Creating Conditions for Building Peace – the Role of Russia, together with the Russian Centre for Strategic Studies of Religion and Politics of Contemporary World and the Russian Media Centre Izvestya, and with the participation of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Dessy Roussanova
Fri, 27/11/2009

Alert meets the negotiating panels of the Philippine Government and the armed opposition

Advancing the peace process

International Alert recently met representatives of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) panel negotiating with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Led by its chair, Foreign Affairs Under-secretary Rafael Sguis, the panel and the former UK Ambassador to the Philippines, Peter Beckingham, visited Alert offices in London before embarking on a tour to Belfast, upon the invitation of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to learn from the Northern Ireland’s peacebuilding experience.

Ed Garcia
Fri, 27/11/2009

Communicating for peace

Empowering local peacebuilding organisations in DRC

Last month, International Alert conducted a week long communication training course for local peacebuilding organisations active in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The training took place against a backdrop of renewed fighting and multiple atrocities having been reported on all sides.

Local organisations taking part in the training were long term partners of the Life and Peace Institute, which is one of our partners in Bukavu, South Kivu province.

Aurélien Tobie
Sun, 29/11/2009

Peacebuilding in Burundi: how peace transitions can work

A reply to Oliver Richmond's 'Liberal Peace Transitions'

This article by Alert's Director of Programmes Phil Vernon is a reply to Oliver Richmond’s ‘Liberal Peace Transitions' for Open Democracy.

International Alert supports a series of small post-conflict initiatives in Burundi. And some of the values that motivate these are also dear to the liberal hearts of the international community.

Phil Vernon
Mon, 30/11/2009

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Developing a road map for public diplomacy and peacebuilding

International Alert recently brought together in Moscow experts on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for a meeting on Developing Agenda for Peacebuilding and Public Dialogue. Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and other international analysts and civil society activists took part in the two-day discussions in Moscow.

Dessy Roussanova
Tue, 01/12/2009

Broadcasting for peace

Listen to Alert's experts in a series of interviews for radio station Passion for the Planet

As part of our partnership with radio station Passion for the Planet this month you can listen to the following interviews:

Can reconciliation after conflict really work? Hear about a boy from Liberia who became friends with his father's killer and a ground-breaking peace and cultural festival that took place in the country.

Plus, when it comes to negotiating peace, why a woman's touch often succeeds where men fail, and why some local chiefs are deferring to the women of the tribe?

Chris Underwood
Sun, 13/12/2009

Climate-proof reintegration of ex-combatants in Liberia

A comprehensive approach to peacebuilding

In Liberia, the process of recovery from war includes encouraging both ex-combatants and former IDPs to return to their place of origin and resume their lives there. There are many difficulties, not least the reluctance of some excombatants to go and to stay, and the reluctance of some communities to accept them back.

Janani Vivekanda
Mon, 14/12/2009

River management and flood risk in Nepal

Conflict-sensitive adaptation to climate change

When the Koshi River which flows through the Eastern Terai region of Nepal flooded in summer 2008, it displaced more than 60,000 people, damaged the national highway, and destroyed crops. Since then, major concerns have been voiced that the fragile embankment will break in more places, flooding an even greater area.

The severity of risk is closely linked to the poor maintenance of dams and river barriers. Responsibility thus ultimately lies with the government.

Janani Vivekanda
Tue, 15/12/2009

Waiting for the ants is not enough in Mozambique

Understanding and managing climate and conflict risks

People must both understand and trust the climate information they receive if they are to respond in an adequate manner.

In 2000, the Limpopo river basin in southern Africa experienced a very substantial rainfall for many days as a result of unusual cyclone activity. Experts knew that it would result in serious flooding - of a magnitude never experienced before by rural communities in Mozambique. Yet very few villages were informed about it.

Janani Vivekanda
Wed, 16/12/2009

Caucasian brands go to Brussels

Promoting regional and cross-divide economic cooperation in the South Caucasus

Between 10-12 June 2010, Alert’s Economy & Conflict partners from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey as well as Nagorno-Karabakh and South Ossetia, the Caucasus Business and Development Network (CBDN), gathered in Brussels for a strategic planning meeting to discuss their work promoting regional and cross-divide economic cooperation initiatives in the South Caucasus.

Gulru Nabieva
Sun, 27/06/2010

Mediation during Guinean elections

Empowering Guineans to prevent and resolve election-related conflicts

As the people of Guinea were preparing to go to the polls to cast their vote to elect their president on 27th June 2010, the West Africa programme in collaboration with the Mediation Support Project – a joint venture between swisspeace and the Center for Security Studies (ETH-Zurich) – ran four mediation training workshops during May 2010 in N’zérékoré, Conakry, Labe and Kankan.

West Africa Team
Mon, 28/06/2010
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