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Faith-oriented Infrastructures for Peace – the Secret to their Resilience?
I was recently on a panel discussing the conflict in South Sudan. A thing that struck me during the discussion, was how the panelists were struggling to bring up positive scenarios. Still, Friar...
USIP Report Calls for the Implementation of the Marrakesh Declaration
Susan Hayward from the United States Institute of Peace, with the Cambridge Institute on Religion and International Studies has published report on the Marrakesh Declaration. The “Understanding and...
Equality is not a Question of ‘Goodness’
There is little doubt that engaging religious worldviews in diplomacy has gained notable traction. It’s been three years since the US Department of States’ Office of Religion and Global Affairs was...
New Study on Boko Haram Released in New York
“If any Boko Haram member tells you he is feeling fine he is a bloody liar. To do so we go about roaming in the bush, we have no good food, we do not bath.” The quote is from an interview with a...
Capacity Building Through Dialogue and Education
In a speech held on Wednesday during a meeting for international NGOs working on peace, one of the keynote speakers, the U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein...
Call for Proposals: Effective Inter-religious Action in Peacebuilding
As part of the Effective Inter-religious Action in Peacebuilding (EIAP) Program, the Alliance for Peacebuilding has announced a Call for Proposals to help in the development of a guide for the...
Sharing Knowledge is a Step Towards Change
Two and a half years ago there were around thirty organisations and actors presented at the conference centre owned by the Orthodox Church of Finland in the outskirts of Helsinki. It was winter, the...
Tender announcement – Needs-assessment in Kosovo
Consultancy announcement FCA Network
Inclusivity the focus of the 6th Advisory Meeting of the Network
Nobel laureates giving direction to the role of women in preventing violent extremism The international interfaith Conference brought together 300 participants from 50 states for three...