by Anna Tervahartiala | Jun 11, 2019 | News, Peace Support, Somalia
Over the past twenty years, Somalia has experienced a raging civil war, a rise in violent extremism and a devastating famine – leading to a collapse of institutions, structures and trust in government. The failure of the state has greatly damaged social cohesion...
by Anna Tervahartiala | May 18, 2018 | News, Peace Support
The morning sun streamed into the meeting rooms rising above Stockholm as Under Secretary-General and United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Mr. Adama Dieng opened the session Competing Legitimacies? Role of Religion in Peacebuilding at the...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Dec 12, 2017 | Central African Republic, News
The Central African Republic (CAR) has undergone a surge of violence since in March 2013. With up to 1.1 million people forcefully displaced since then, the crisis has become one of the worst humanitarian disasters of our time. There are more than 500.000 CAR refugees...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Aug 17, 2017 | News, Peace Support, Southeast Asia
The yearlong Fellowship program was designed with three in-person workshop phases, two in Thailand and one in Myanmar. As the gathering of the first in-person workshop of the Fellowship commenced in January 2016, Hindu, Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, and traditional...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jul 12, 2017 | Kenya, News, Somalia
The lack of livelihood and employment opportunities has broadly been recognised as one of the root causes driving individuals, particularly youth, to join extremist organisations. Studies carried out by the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers on violent...
