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Buddhist Peacemaker Prof. Dr. Parichart Suwanbubbha Has Passed Away
Prof. Dr. Parichart Suwanbubbha, a talented and powerful peace mediator in the Buddhist-Muslim conflicts in southern Thailand, passed away in December 2016. The Network Secretariat present its...
Design Competition for the MBBI Congress Logo
Next year will mark the 8th Mediation Beyond Borders International (MBBI) Congress held in the Hague from the 4th to the 6th of October 2017. The Congress website will be update in January with a...
Hope in Solidarity
WASHINGTON, DC (21.11.2016) – Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi, Director of the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers in Washington DC, spoke Friday on the deep sense of solidarity interfaith...
Learning by Doing: Community-Based Approaches to Countering Violent Extremism
The large conference room was buzzing. Breaking news of the nine local youth recruited to Syria had traveled fast in the small province of Amushen, which was already beleaguered by a slate...
Accord Insight 3: Making Peace with the Past
Conciliation Resources’ third Accord Insight, Making peace with the past: transforming broken relationships, reflects on the practical approaches and challenges of addressing the legacies of violent...
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...