People Building Peace II

Contents:

Foreword, Kofi Annan

Acknowledgments

Introduction, Paul van Tongeren, Malin Brenk, Marte Hellema, and Juliette Verhoeven

Part I: Reflections

Chapter 1: Weaving the Web: Civil-Society Roles in Working with Conflict and Building Peace
Catherine Barnes

Personal Story: Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

Chapter 2:  Discourses on Peace Practices: Learning to Change by Learning from Change?
Cordula Reimann and Norbert Ropers

Chapter 3: Effective Regional Networks and Partnerships
Andr'ὲs Serbin

Chapter 4: UN-Civil-Society Interactions: Working Together for Peace
John Clark

Chapter 5: The War on Terror: Effects on Civil-Society Actors in the Field of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding
Kevin P. Clements

Chapter 6: People Building Peace: Key Messages and Essential Findings
Paul van Tongeren, Juliette Verhoeven, and Jim Wake

Part 2: Themes and Cases

Chapter 7: Women: Using the Gender Lens
Lisa Schirch and Manjrika Sewak

Personal Story: Queen Noor • Women Breaking the Silence: The Athwaas Initiative in Kashmir • The Other Clan: Save Somali Women and Children • Women Weaving Bougainville Together: Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency in Papua New Guinea • The Fate of Disappeared Children: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina • Women's Peace Activism in West Africa: The WIPNET Experience • Leaving Lebanon: The Four Mothers Movement in Israel

Chapter 8: Youth: Protagonists for Peace
L. Randolph Carter and Michael Shipler

Picking Up the Pieces: Jamaa in Burundi • And a Child Shall Lead: The Children's Movement for Peace and Return to Happiness in Colombia • Young Kosovars Help Themselves: The Kosovar Youth Council

Chapter 9: The Media: Reaching Hearts and Minds
Francis Rolt

Personal Story: John Marks • Changing Attitudes Through Children's Television: Nashe Maalo in Macedonia • Operation Fine Girl Exposes Sexual Violence: WITNESS in Sierra Leone • Unsung Heroes: Studio Ijambo in Burundi

Chapter 10: Faith-Based Organizations: The Religious Dimensions of Peacebuilding
Douglas Johnston

Struggling for a Just Peace: Naga Churches in Northeast India • The Pastor and the Imam: The Muslim-Christian Dialogue Forum in Nigeria • Step by Step on the Way to Peace: The Dhammayietra Peace Walk in Cambodia • Restoring the Power of Speech: The REMHI Initiative in Guatemala

Chapter 11: Education That Makes a Difference
Tricia S. Jones

Personal Story: David Hamburg • Food, Education, and Peacebuilding: Children's Learning Services in Sierra Leone • Committed to Building Peace: The City Montessori School in India • Uniting Children During War: Sawa-UNICEF in Lebanon • Managing Conflict at School: The Ohio Commission  on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in the United States

Chapter 12: The Arts and Peacebuilding: Using Imagination and Creativity
John Paul Lederach

Using Creative Arts to Deglamorize War: Peacelinks in Sierra Leone • Artistic Responses to the Siege of Sarajevo: The Cellist and the Film Festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Chapter 13: The Peacebuilding Potential of Local Businesses
Nick Killick and Canan G??nd??z

Brokering Peace and Building the Nation: The National Business Initiative in South Africa • A Profitable Peace: The Confederation of British Industry in Northern Ireland • Planting Peace: Philippine Business for Social Progress

Chapter 14: Diasporas: Untapped Potential for Peacebuilding in the Homelands
Abdullah A. Mohamoud

Fear and Hope in Acholiland: Kacoke Madit in Uganda and the United Kingdom • Contributing to Peace at Home: The Berghof Foundation in Sri Lanka

Chapter 15: Civilian Peacekeepers: Creating a Safe Environment for Peacebuilding
Tim Wallis and Claudia Samayoa

An Experiment at Mixing Roles: The Balkan Peace Team in Croatia and Serbia/Kosovo • Protecting the Protectors: Peace Brigades International in Colombia • Human Shields to Limit Violence: Witness for Peace in Nicaragua • Grassroots and South-South Cooperation: Bantay Cease-fire in the Philippines

Chapter 16: Development: No Development Without Peace, No Peace Without Development
Malin Brenk and Hans van de Veen

Peace Aid: Norwegian Church Aid in Mali • A Journey Toward Peace: St. Xavier's Social Service Society in India

Chapter 17: Early Warning and Early Response: Preventing Violent Conflicts
Takwa Zebulon Suifon

Personal Story: Max van der Stoel • Managing Conflicts by Phone: The Mobile Phones Network in Northern Ireland • Working with the Local Wisdom: The National Council of Churches of Kenya Peace Program

Chapter 18: Traditional and Local Conflict Resolution
Jannie Malan

Clan Elders as Conflict Mediators: Somaliland • Revitalizing Tradition to Promote Reconciliation: The Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Chapter 19: Dialogue-Based Processes: A Vehicle for Peacebuilding
Edward (Edy) Kaufman

Engaging the "Other": The Nansen Dialogue Network in the Balkans • Building Trust, Promoting Hope: The Families Forum Hello Peace Project in Israel and Palestine • Creating Expertise: The Oxford Research Group in the United Kingdom • Inside the Revolution of Roses: Georgia • Taking the Constitution to the People: The Citizens Constitutional Forum in Fiji

Chapter 20: Campaigning to Create Awareness: How to Influence People and Change the World
Rebecca Peters

Never Again: The Archdiocese of S'o Paulo and the World Council of Churches in Brazil • Making a Difference: The International Women Building Peace Campaign • Fighting Corruption: The Clean Election Campaign in Kenya • Rage Against the Regime: The Otpor Movement in Serbia • Protests Stop Devastating Nuclear Tests: The Nevada- Semipalatinsk Anti-Nuclear Movement in Kazakhstan • Lessons from Campaigns of the 1990s: Innovations in Humanitarian Advocacy

Chapter 21: Civil Society: Participating in Peace Processes
Celia McKeon

A Nonthreatening Approach to Peace: The Community of Sant? Egidio in Mozambique • Facilitating a Mutual Deescalation Process: Quakers and the Peace and Reconciliation Group in Northern Ireland • Engendering the Peace Process in West Africa: The Mano River Women's Peace Network • Small Steps Toward Reconciliation: The Joint Committee for Democratization and Conciliation in Moldova • A Second Way: Grupo Maryland Between Peru and Ecuador

Chapter 22: Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Not Only a Job for Soldiers
Sami Faltas and Wolf-Christian Paes

Personal Story: Oscar Arias • Former Rebels Use Market Forces to Achieve Their Social Ideals: New Rainbow in Colombia • Transforming Arms into Ploughshares: The Christian Council of Mozambique • Fruits of War: Homies Unidos in El Salvador and the United States

Chapter 23: Reconciliation: Challenges, Responses, and the Role of Civil Society
Hizkias Assefa

Personal Story: Desmond Tutu • From Saying "Sorry" to a Journey of Healing: National Sorry Day in Australia • Listen to Understand: The Listening Project in Croatia • The Spirit of Caux: Moral Re-Armament and Initiatives for Change in Switzerland • Dialogue Spices Peace: Baku Bae in Indonesia

Index
 

About the Book

About the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict

About the European Centre for Conflict Prevention

About the Authors:

Paul van Tongeren is the founder and executive director of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP). In 2002 he initiated the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, an international network of organizations working in conflict prevention and peacebuilding worldwide. Together with the Global Partnership he organized a global process that resulted in a Global Action Agenda, presented at the global conference called "From Reaction to Prevention: Civil Society Forging Partnerships to Prevention Conflict and Build Peace," which took place in New York, from July 19 to 21,2005.

Malin Brenk works as a project officer for the Research Unit at the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP). She has a masters degree in Political Science from Lund University, Sweden, with a specialization in conflict theory, and her thesis examined NGOs strategies and ability to influence the UN. Prior to joining the ECCP she spent six months at INCORE (Centre for International Conflict Research) in Northern Ireland and at the Norwegian Peace Alliance in Oslo, Norway.