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This report reflects the findings of the preparatory phase of a three-year research project exploring the role of gender in peacebuilding. Whilst addressing key research questions, the report identifies three approaches to gender that are evident in peacebuilding: gender-blind, those based on UN Security Council Resolution 1325, and gender-relational. The third – and hitherto unexplored – approach, is based on a strategy of benefit-sharing and solidarity-building between men and women, and uses a context-specific gendered power analysis as its starting point.

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This week, fifty organisations from around the world released a document calling for the post-2015 framework which will replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to include a commitment to conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

Bringing peace into the post-2015 development framework: A joint statement by civil society organisations

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Bringing peace into the post-2015 development framework - English

Intégrer la paix dans le cadre post-2015 - Francais

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The people of Rwanda have come a long way since the 1994 genocide that took nearly a million lives. Yet the stories we hear from the survivors, but also from the ex-combatant and ex-prisoners, show that the people are still struggling to rebuild their lives. We cannot ignore their need for help.  

The debate over what happens after 2015 is beginning to heat up. The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development saw an attempt to develop an alternative set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while the formation of a High Level Panel of World Leaders has focussed minds on what might replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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International Alert and Transition International recently held an advanced course on reintegration of ex-combatants for a distinguished group of 25 professionals in Landgraaf, the Netherlands.

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CALL TO JOIN DRAFTING TEAM FOR BEYOND 2015 POSITION PAPER ON CONFLICT & DISASTER
 

International Alert is bringing back the very successful photographic exhibition, Media and Modern Conflict: A Role for Peace just in time for the Olympics, in partnership with Getty Images and Panos Pictures.

PRESS RELEASE

London, 5th July 2012

International Alert launched its 2011 Annual Report, Peace Talks today. The report uses dialogue – a key tool in Alert’s peacebuilding work – as a theme, and looks at the organisation’s impact in 2011, when Alert celebrated its 25th anniversary.

International Alert is proud to present its new annual report, “Peace Talks”, which looks back at Alert’s work and impact in 2011 – when Alert celebrated its 25th year – using dialogue as a theme.

International Alert is proud to present its new annual report, “Peace Talks”, which looks back at Alert’s work and impact in 2011 – when Alert celebrated its 25th year – using dialogue as a theme.

Annual report 2011

Despite its 40,000 plus participants and hangers-on, the Rio+20 conference was hardly headline-grabbing. It should have been because it was about saving the natural environment – and the fact that it wasn’t is a reflection not just on media news values, but also on what happened before and during.

This month the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, published its Annual Report for 2011 on the Global Programme on the Rule of Law, a key work strand for the agency. It argues that the way local people see their own governments and the actions of donors is the most important factor in reducing poverty and building peace.