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Exploring peacebuilding responses to criminal groups and urban violence

Alert held the second Conflict Ideas Forum on 28th January

Conflict deaths are decreasing as a result of fewer civil wars and inter-state wars. However, a quarter of the world’s population still lives in the shadows of different types of organised violence, including armed insurgencies, terrorism and violent extremism, gang-violence and violence associated with organised crime. This suggests that the constituents, landscapes, cycles and dynamics of pervasive violence have changed.

Wed, 27/02/2013

The state of the world’s states

A blog from our Secretary General

The state is the organising principle of national and international politics and states are the subject of abundant historical research, academic theory and contemporary analysis.  That perhaps makes it a little strange to say that both the state as a category and states in general tend to be taken for granted. But that’s how it is – and it’s a problem.

Fri, 22/02/2013

The emergence of political order: how can we foster it?

A blog by our Director of Programmes

I recently read volume one of Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (Profile Books, 2011) in which he explores how different models of governance have emerged and decayed “from prehuman history to the French Revolution”. Volume two is forthcoming, and will bring the story up to the present day. As someone who works in peacebuilding, which is largely about fostering good governance today, I have a keen interest in how different governance regimes have emerged and decayed in history, if they provide us with clues for the present.

UK Parliament on post-2015: A missed opportunity

An opinion piece by our Senior Policy Advisor

The International Development Select Committee, which scrutinises the Department for International Development (DFID), has issued a long awaited report on the post-2015 agenda.

Tue, 22/01/2013

New research calls for greater engagement between the UK government and diaspora communities

Press release

 

Peacebuilding organisation International Alert yesterday published a new report, Voices across borders, which calls for greater engagement between the UK government and diaspora communities, in order to improve peace and development.

Barry Navarro
Fri, 30/11/2012

Cross-party Sri Lankan parliamentarians renew their commitment to reconciliation efforts in a visit to the UK

Press release

Sri Lankan parliamentarians Honourable Vasantha Senanayake MP (Sri Lanka Freedom Party), Honourable Harin Fernando MP (United National Party), and Mr Raghu Balanchandran (Tamil National Alliance) visited the UK from 25th-31st October 2012 in the second of a series of dialogues between this cross-party group of Sri Lankan parliamentarians, political activists and Sri Lankan diaspora communities in the UK. 

Wed, 14/11/2012

Programming Framework for International Alert

Design, monitoring and evaluation
International Alert
January, 2010
International Alert
56 pages
London, UK

Our Programming Framework provides International Alert peace practitioners with some guidance in the complex and difficult task of building peace. It also offers those we work with and are accountable to greater clarity about what we do and why we do it. Most importantly, it is designed to enable peacebuilders to be better able to identify and measure the impact of their actions, so that they can be more effective in what they do.

Our Programming Framework provides International Alert peace practitioners with some guidance in the complex and difficult task of building peace.

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Peacebuilding in eastern DRC

Calling for a new approach

 

On 11th October, International Alert released a new report – Ending the deadlock: Towards a new vision of peace in eastern DRC – which proposes a comprehensive approach to building lasting peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Cloe Clayton
Wed, 31/10/2012

Civil society calls for women's priorities to be at heart of Burundi's development

Burundi's conference in Geneva

At the start of an important conference on the future of Burundi, an elected delegation of Burundian women’s rights activists put forth concrete policy recommendations on development, gender equality, economic empowerment and peacebuilding priorities for their country.

Ilaria Bianchi
Tue, 30/10/2012

Georgia's parliamentary elections

What do they mean for Georgian-Abkhaz relations?

A voter in Georgia. Photo by Anna WoźniakOn 1st October 2012, Georgians went to the polls to elect a new parliament, the results of which surprised even the most experienced of commentators on Georgian issues.

Juliet Schofield
Tue, 30/10/2012

Calling for a new approach to peacebuilding in eastern DRC

A press release on Alert's new report

On 11th October, International Alert released a new report – Ending the deadlock: Towards a new vision of peace in eastern DRC – which proposes a comprehensive approach to building lasting peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ilaria Bianchi
Thu, 11/10/2012

Ending the deadlock

Towards a new vision of peace in eastern DRC
International Alert
September, 2012
International Alert
60 pages
London, UK
978-1-906677-31-2

This report demonstrates how the conflicts in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo are embedded in Congolese history and how they relate mainly to the distribution of power and economic resources, influenced by the ethnic identity of the various parties. The conflicts combine local aspects along with the dynamics of regional war, which explains their particular complexity. This report analyses the various programmes aimed at restoring peace in the country, concluding that they have not addressed the root causes of conflict.

This report analyses how the conflicts in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo are embedded in history and in the nature of governance. Solutions, the report argues, need to tackle deep-rooted political issues at local, national and regional level.

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Alert's response to the Philippines peace deal

Towards genuine and lasting peace in Mindanao

The Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed a peacebuilding framework that will guide the next critical parts in the negotiations for a genuine and lasting peace in Mindanao. While the framework agreement itself does not declare a permanent end to hostilities and the demobilization and disarmament of combatants, it represents a very significant step indeed, and generates momentum for a definitive peace agreement that is expected to be signed in a year’s time.   

Pancho Lara
Mon, 08/10/2012

Our Voices

OUR VOICES – ENGLISH

NOS VOIX, LES ACTIONS – FRANÇAIS

To read more about "Our Voices / Nos Voix, Les Actions", click here.

Published Date: 
Mon, 01/10/2012
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