Alert in the News

This article first appeared in The Huffington Post on 22 May 2013

This comment first appeared in The Guardian on 25 April 2013

Alert recently convened a meeting of security experts to look at the likelihood of increased conflict arising from changes to our climate already underway. The newswire Reuters Foundation AlertNet has reported the story here, or you can read the article below:

Mid January to mid February 2010

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

What impact does conflict have on our climate and what impact does climate change have on conflict?

Does overseas interference in conflict areas bring positive change or leave a lasting negative legacy?

And which countries are most vulnerable to conflict in the future?

Mid February to mid March 2010

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

Just what is it that causes war and why have we had over 120 of them worldwide since the end of the Cold War in 1989?

What needs to happen for there to be a lasting peace after a conflict?

Can business influence peace? And should local businesses be included in a peace process?

Listen, on demand, to interviews with International Alert

Last year we teamed up with the UK’s leading ethical radio station Passion for the Planet and recorded a series of interviews focused on peacebuilding.

These interviews, which were broadcast on Passion for the Planet, are now being made available to listen to on demand.

Mid April to mid May 2010

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

Will oil in Uganda be a blessing or a curse for the country?

Is female empowerment the route to more peaceful societies?

Why is war so much easier than peace?

Mid May to mid June 2010

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

Will water be the new oil when it comes to conflict?

Will climate change lead to war?

Can a radio station build bridges after the fighting has stopped?

"This resource pack will give every business an opportunity to change its sphere of influence.”
Ravi Fernando, UN Global Compact Sri Lanka Network Focal Point
CEO SLINTEC (Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology).

In partnership with the UN Global Compact, International Alert recently launched a unique new resource, Sustaining Business and Peace to help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make sense of Corporate Responsibility, sustainability, peacebuilding and human rights.

International Alert has partnered with a leading digital and internet-based radio station, Passion for the Planet, in order to broaden the public’s understanding of peacebuilding.

Over the course of the next 12 months the station, which broadcasts to an audience primarily interested in environmental and health issues, will be featuring a series of interview clips that highlight both the need and the response of peacebuilders in conflict-affected countries across the world.

Mid August to Mid September 2009

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

Could overseas aid be doing more harm than good?

We might have accepted climate change as a given, but what do the rest of the world really think?

Mid September to mid October 2009

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

Why is it that some large western corporations have a negative effect on peace and yet others can be at the very heart of peacebuilding?
Are children the hidden victims of a conflict – their plight forgotten while the adults fight and then their needs ignored once peace returns?

Mid July to mid August 2010

As part of our partnership with radio station Passion for the Planet this month you can listen to exclusive interviews with International Alert’s Secretary General Dan Smith and Director of Programmes Phil Vernon on Passion for the Planet radio.

Chris Dolan, director of the Refugee Law Project in Uganda, has recently been conducting research for International Alert for an upcoming report on sexual violence in eastern Congo. In this interview he concluded democracy is not possible in the eastern Congo without big changes in relations between men and women. Article published on 20th October 2010, Guardian.