by Anna | Dec 20, 2019 | Inclusivity, Somalia
As part of the Network’s efforts to strengthen grassroots peacemaking and peacebuilding through inclusive measures, the Network, in collaboration with Finn Church Aid, are developing a Peace Circle Training Program manual for Peace Mothers and Peacemakers. In...
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 | May 16, 2018 | News
In June 2017, the Somali government organized a nation-wide meeting on reconciliation in Mogadishu. The meeting kicked off a nation-wide mapping of conflict causes and levels and outlined the priorities of reconciliation in the country. The conference, the mapping and...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 18, 2018 | News
“Representation does not translate to influence,” Fadumo Dayib begins. The former presidential candidate knows what she is talking about. Quotas and talk of women’s participation is not the same as power and influence. “Women have always had a very informal part in...
