General

This is an armed and warring world. There have been over 125 armed conflicts of varying scale since the end of the Cold War at the end of 1989, with a combined death toll in that period of at least 7 million people, of whom 75 percent are generally estimated to be civilians. Forty armed conflicts were active during the course of 2004. The vast majority of these armed conflicts are not between states but within them, albeit usually with external involvement.

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This is the first issue of International Alert's newsletter.

In this issue:

• Congolese women speak out against sexual violence
• New look, new website
• Preventing conflict in Sao Tome and Principe
• Celebrating peace with Liberia’s media
• Recognising gender and peacebuilding at the UN
• Promoting conflict-sensitivity by corporations
• New publications
• How to get involved

Update 1

International Alert has been working for almost 20 years to build peace in countries and territories affected or threatened by violent conflict. This work reflects our vision of a world in which, when people pursue their human rights and seek chances of betterment for themselves and their communities, the conflicts that arise are pursued with honesty, with forthrightness, and also with wisdom so that they do not erupt into violence.

Annual review 2004-5

This is the second issue of International Alert's newsletter.

In this issue:

• Local Business, Local Peace
• Spotlight on Guinea
• Encouraging DFID to take a peacebuilding approach
• The impact of corruption in the South Caucasus
• Supporting peace through our resource centres

Update

A legitimate, representative and capacitated civil society is essential for effective statebuilding and a condition for sustainable peace in Nepal. Donor support to civil society in the Nepali conflict context can be conceptualised in a number of ways. Strategies can broadly focus at the national, district and community levels, or on urban and rural constituencies. Similarly, a temporal distinction can be made between short-, medium- and long-term strategies.

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The end of the Cold War era brought with it great violence and turmoil. Since 1990 there have been over 125 armed wars, millions of civilian deaths, as well as devastation and ruin for some of the world’s most disadvantaged communities. The majority of these conflicts happen within states, not between them, creating new challenges and aggravating persistant problems.

20th Anniversary brochure

International Alert is an independent peacebuilding organisation working in over 20 countries and territories around the world. Our dual approach involves working directly with people affected by violent conflict as well as at government, EU and UN levels to shape both policy and practice in building sustainable peace. Our regional work is based in the African Great Lakes, West Africa, the Caucasus, the Andean region of South America, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Philippines.

Annual report 2005

International Alert's impact report 2009.

Impact report

This is the third issue of International Alert's newsletter.

In this issue:

• Perceptions of War and Peacebuilding
• Working for Peace
• Putting an end to political killings in the Philippines
• Joining forces with Peaceworkers UK
• Alert celebrates 20 years of peacebuilding
• New publications
• Women’s participation in DRC’s elections 

Newsletter 3

This is the fourth issue of International Alert's newsletter.

In this issue:

• Liberia’s peace and cultural festival
• New projects support the role of women peacebuilders
• Train for a career in peacebuilding
• Reintegrating ex-combatants
• Launch of conflictsensitivity.org
• Peaceworker profile
• Cross-conflict learning in Cyprus
• New publications 

Update 4

International Alert works with communities affected by violent conflict to end the fighting and build a peace which will last. Our unique, multi-faceted approach draws upon our field programmes and our thematic research to influence decision-making and shape peace processes. We also work to increase the expertise of peacebuilding practitioners and the profile of the peacebuilding sector through training and outreach.

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The failure of Nepal's nascent peace process to address the diverse peace needs of marginalized and excluded communities at the grassroots level threatens to undermine possibilities for long-term sustainable peace in the country. Nepalese society has long been characterized by multiple forms of exclusion, divided along fault lines of, inter alia, ethnicity, caste, gender and economic status. Exclusion, in its multifarious forms, is widely recognized to be a major contributing factor to the past decade of conflict in Nepal.

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Who we are

International Alert is an independent organisation that works to build sustainable peace in areas affected or threatened by violent conflict. At both the policy level and on the ground, we work closely with over 120 partner organisations in some of the world’s worst-affected conflict regions.

Brochure

This briefing outlines the key findings of the recent study on Enhancing the EU Response to Women and Armed Conflict commissioned by the Slovenian Presidency of the EU, and discusses the recommendations in relation to the European Commission. Although the EU has repeatedly committed itself to the need for the full implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, current EU interventions in conflict-affected contexts lack a clear gender and conflict analysis and women continue to be marginalised from peacebuilding initiatives.

Briefing paper

This report reflects some of the perspectives and lessons learned from the Philippine-Nepal Exchange on the Peace Aspects of Constitution-making that took place in Kathmandu in August 2008. The report includes pertinent lessons from the Philippines experience of constitution-making from the perspectives of a Filipino peace practitioner, who served as a member of the Constitutional Commission that drafted the 1987 Philippines Constitution.

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