NEWS

The Third Armenian-Azerbaijani Public Peace Forum – An important step in the Nagorno-Karabakh peacebuilding process. Confidence building – Working together towards the peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The Caucasus Business and Development Network visits London and Brussels – Promoting economic approaches to peacebuilding. Making aid effective – An impact update on our advocacy to reform the system of overseas development aid. Putting public security on the agenda in Nepal – A new publication series. Local governance in the DRC – Alert shares analysis with other INGOs. Strengthening the economic dimensions of peacebuilding – Four case studies.

EVENTS

Are you Taking the Peace? – UK top comedians take a stand against war Run for Peace, Run for Alert! – The London Marathon and the upcoming British 10K Swish for Peace! – A clothes swap night in support of our work The Observer – A play inspired by Alert’s work on elections observation Training Courses – Find out more and sign up to Alert’s training courses: Core Skills for Working in Conflict (21-26 July 2009) Introduction to Working in Conflict (24-25 October 2009) Peacebuilding and Development Institute in Sri Lanka – PDI: a training, capacity building and research programme based in South Asia, run by South Asia, for South Asia. Find out more and sign up to PDI’s training courses.

JOBS

Senior Programme Design and Fundraising Officer Adviser - Climate Change & Conflict

PUBLICATIONS

Strengthening the economic dimensions of peacebuilding Uganda: Enabling peace economies through early recovery Nepal: What role for business in post-conflict economic recovery? Sri Lanka: Rethinking the nexus between youth, unemployment and conflict Colombia: The challenges of supporting ‘alternative’ livelihoods opportunities for peacebuilding Public security in Nepal Security for Whom?: Security Sector Reform and Public Security in Nepal Kailali - a rural Terai district where ethnic tensions threaten to escalate. Morang - an industrial hub hit hard by unrest in the eastern Terai region. Jumla - a remote hill district where the vast majority of the population lacks access to formal security and justice mechanisms.