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Broadcasting for peace

Alert partners up with radio station Passion For the Planet

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.

Chris Underwood
Thu, 23/07/2009

Broadcasting for peace

Listen to Alert’s Secretary General Dan Smith in a series of interviews for radio station Passion for the Planet

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?

Chris Underwood
Fri, 21/08/2009

Broadcasting for peace

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

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?

Chris Underwood
Fri, 18/09/2009

Sri Lankan and Indian counterparts exchange lessons learnt on youth policy

Broadening Alert's youth work in South Asia

International Alert Sri Lanka recently visited New Delhi in an attempt to further expand Alert’s regional work in the South Asia.

Communications
Tue, 27/10/2009

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

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

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

Impact Report 2009 launched by International Alert

Our impact in 2009

Read our 2009 Impact Report

Listing the peacebuilding NGO’s strategic achievements in the last 12 months, the report is also candid about the challenges the organisation faces, in light of global economic turbulence and the attendant risks to regions prone to violence in many of the 20 plus countries in which they work.

Chris Underwood
Wed, 30/06/2010

Georgian-Abkhaz dialogue meeting

Exploring new ways of thinking about conflict resolution

Between 28th June and 1st July, International Alert gathered together Georgian and Abkhaz civil society activists and experts in the latest in a series of “dialogue through research” meetings intended to shed new light on the conflict and explore different ways of thinking about conflict-related issues.

Juliet Schofield
Wed, 28/07/2010

Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan

From national level dialogue to grassroots work

Since the widespread violence broke out in the south of the country in April and June this year, International Alert has sent staff members to Kyrgyzstan on three separate missions in the past two months. Their purpose was assessment and to start to engage in face to face meetings with politicians, religious leaders and leaders of civil society groups from all sides of the conflict. On this basis, we have put together a comprehensive peacebuilding plan for the country with three key strands:

Simon Tiller
Fri, 27/08/2010

International engagement in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict resolution process

Alert’s new publication

International Alert is proud to present our new publication on "International Engagement in the Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict Resolution Process", a collection of papers from Georgian and Abkhaz researchers analysing the effectiveness of international engagement in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict resolution process, with a specific focus on the post-August 2008 period.

Juliet Schofield
Mon, 27/09/2010
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