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The tension resulting from the recent attacks in Mumbai has underscored the fragility of peace in the region.
Friends must step in to restore the peace initiative
The two states cannot do so on their own.
They need help
Rotary has partnered with seven leading universities around the globe to host the Rotary Peace Centers in peace and conflict resolution. Each year, Rotary selects up to 60 Fellows to study peace and conflict resolution worldwide
Feel free to join MEPEACE - or/and to exchange constructive views on peace perspectives in Middle East here.
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The Global Campaign for Peace Education has two goals:
1) to build public awareness and political support for the introduction of peace education into all spheres of education, and; 2) to promote the education of all teachers to teach for peace
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- Winds of horror that is belowing now a days, suicide attack, War on terror, inocent blood stimulate to me that you should to do some for peace.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- I am 24, Graduation in sociology from Bahawalpur university.
Trust for Volunteer Organization (TVO) an international funding and empowerment donor agency, funding the local NGO. I have worked as Project Officer for an educational project (Primary School, Education Awareness, and Community Workshop) for two year.
Muslim Hands International UK based organization working all over Pakistan. I have worked as Community Officer for three projects (Safe water Scheme, Hygiene, School Construction) for one year
Japan based NGO Nippon International Cooperation for Community Development Organization (NICCO) came for emergency and rehabilitation work in 8 Oct., 05 Earthquake disasters. Worked for NICCO as Program Officer for different projects (Emergency Relief , Japan Tandali Camp, Japan Mobile Home Construction & Construction Awareness Workshops ) for one year.
For peace work doing work for own NGO Safe Winds Organization.
Have participate several workshops and exploring visit.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- South asia region
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Pakistan
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Doing work for Safe Winds Organization as Chairman
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://www.safewinds.org
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://internationalpeaceandconflict.ning.com
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.hrf.com.uk
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Alternative Dispute Resolution, Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Democratization, Development, Education, Environment, Humanitarian Relief, Organizational Development
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Fundraising, Program Administration, Program Design, Research, Training
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Peace, youth, women issues,development
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- many
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Comment Wall (8 comments)
- At 2:40pm on September 11, 2009,
Sohail Mahmood said…
- busy teaching
and getting exhaustedbecause of the fasting
- At 2:23pm on February 21, 2009,
Dalia.M.Mahir said… - Dear Mohammad ,
Thank you very much for your warm wishes,
in fact I just began the process for applying a leave for 6 months , as you may know I already work at the Ministry of Human Rights in Baghdad !!!
not very much people think that Gov. officials do reall efforts towards enforcing human rights in their countries !!
but I assure you that this general view will change soon , in world of today Government officials are more aware of the vital importance of fulfilling their responsibilities toward Human rights , at least for obtaining an international credibility !!
Looking forward to meet you in Pakinstan !
Dalia
- At 9:34am on December 28, 2008,
Alberto Elisavetsky said…
- Hi!!! If you want to have a general idea! in english visit http://odr.info
- At 9:22am on December 28, 2008,
- Hi How are you! regards from Argentina!!!!!!
- At 11:57am on December 11, 2008,
Jacob Laden said…
- I have a similar interest in training, evaluation and program design for education, relief and conflict related development programs. Lately I have been thinking about transitioning from my position at FEMA to a more international setting. Do you have any suggestions about a project where I might apply my efforts? Feel free to reach me at jakeladen@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Jake
- At 12:58pm on November 19, 2008,
Rene Wadlow said… - I am pleased to send you an article on the need for reconciliation bridge-builders in areas of tensions and conflicts as in eastern Congo. Just as world citizens had pushed in the 1950s for the creation of UN Forces with soldiers specially prepared for peace-keeping service, so now we are again pushing for a new type of world civil servant. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have all contributed actively to military-peacekeeping forces. Perhaps these same countries can take a lead in forming reconciliation teams. Your support and advice would be most appreciated. With best wishes, Rene Wadlow
East Congo — Need for Reconciliation Bridge-Builders
Rene Wadlow
On bridges are stated the limits in tons
of the loads they can bear.
But I’ve never yet found one that can bear more
than we do.
Although we are not made of roman freestone,
nor of steel, nor of concrete.
From “Bridges” – Ondra Lysohorsky
Translated from the Lachian by Davis Gill.
Violence is growing in the eastern areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, basically the administrative provinces of North and South Kivu. The violence could spread to the rest of the country as Angolan troops may come to the aid of the Central Government as they have in the past while Rwandan and Ugandan troops are said to be helping the opposing militia led by Laurent Nkunda. While Nkunda and his Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) say that they are only protecting the ethnic Tutsi living in Congo, Nkunda could emerge as a national opposition figure to President Joseph Kabila, who has little progress to show from his years in power.
There is high-level recognition that violence in Congo could spread, having a destabilizing impact on the whole region. UN diplomats, led by Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, have stressed that a political solution — not a military one — is the only way to end the violence, and they are urging the presidents of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania to work together to restore stability. The instability, along with Congo’s vast mineral and timber riches have drawn in neighboring armies who have joined local insurgencies as well as local commanders of the national army to exploit the mines and to keep mine workers in near-slavery conditions.
The United Nations has some 17,000 peacemakers in Congo (MONUC), the UN’s largest peacekeeping mission, but their capacity is stretched to the limit. Recently, the General in command of the UN forces, Lieutenant General Vicent Diaz de Villegas of Spain resigned his post after seven weeks — an impossible task. Their mission is to protect civilians, some 250,000 of which have been driven from their homes since the fighting intensified in late August 2008. The camps where displaced persons have been living have been attacked both by government and rebel forces — looting, raping, and burning. UN under-secretary general for peacekeeping, Alain Le Roy, is asking for an additional 3,000 soldiers, but it is not clear which states may propose troops for a very difficult mission. While MONUC has proven effective at securing peace in the Ituri district in north-eastern Congo, it has been much less successful in the two Kivu provinces.
The eastern area of Congo is the scene of fighting at least since 1998 — in part as a result of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda in 1994. In mid-1994, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees poured into the Kivus, fleeing the advance of the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front, now become the government of Rwanda. Many of these Hutu were still armed, among them, the “genocidaire” who a couple of months before had led the killings of some 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda. They continued to kill Tutsi living in the Congo, many of whom had migrated there in the 18th century.
The people in eastern Congo have lived together for many centuries and had developed techniques of conflict resolution, especially between the two chief agricultural lifestyles: that of agriculture and cattle herding. However, the influx of a large number of Hutu, local political considerations, a desire to control the wealth of the area — rich in gold, tin and tropical timber — all these factors have overburdened the local techniques of conflict resolution and have opened the door to new, negative forces interested only in making money and gaining political power.
UN peace-keeping troops are effective when there is peace to keep. What is required today in eastern Congo is not so much more soldiers under UN command, than reconciliation bridge-builders, persons who are able to restore relations among the ethnic groups of the area. The United Nations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations need to develop bridge-building teams who can help to strengthen local efforts at conflict resolution and re-establishing community relations. In the Kivus, many of the problems arise from land tenure issues. With the large number of people displaced and villages destroyed, it may be possible to review completely land tenure and land use issues.
World citizens were among those in the early 1950s who stressed the need to create UN peace-keeping forces with soldiers especially trained for such a task. Today, a new type of world civil servant is needed — those who in areas of tension and conflict can undertake the slow but important task of restoring confidence among peoples in conflict, establishing contacts and looking for ways to build upon common interests.
Rene Wadlow, Representative to the United Nations, Geneva, Association of World Citizens
- At 4:54pm on September 23, 2008,
Elaine Kelley said… - Hi Muhammad-
What kind of organization do you work for?
thanks
Elaine
- At 2:47pm on September 23, 2008,
Diana Fernanda said… - Hello!
Sure! I would like to join you in the peace campaign. Please send me more information.
Diana
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