Mois : mai 2006

Linked with our presentation of Ana Raffai – Croatia.

Linked also with our presentation of Center for Peace Studies – Ontario/Canada.

And linked with our presentation of How churches become peace churches.

The CHURCH & PEACE European network brings together groups, communities, organisations and churches committed to becoming the peace church of Jesus Christ in daily life and action. It is a European network of Christian communities, churches and organizations who believe that the peace witness is an essential characteristic of the church of Jesus Christ. It began in 1949, when Quakers, Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren (the historic peace churches) joined with the International Fellowship of Reconciliation to coordinate their activities. Today Church and Peace is a network of 45 churches, communities and peace service organizations and 30 individuals from Eastern and Western Europe. Church and Peace’s members share the conviction that nonviolence is one of Jesus’ essential teachings for his church and that the Gospel message of reconciliation and forgiveness means leading lives of active peacemaking and service for peace. (Read more on this page).

ReliefWeb is a source for Trainings, for involved NGOs, for Academic Research Institutions and for Documents.

Read here Ana Raffai’s Text in her balkan language; or here in german.

The organization is member of Abolition 2000.

See also the Quaker Council for European Affairs.

And see the institute for war and peace reporting.

Linked with Irina Yanovskaya – Georgia. And with Nino Burjanadze – Georgia.
The International Center on Conflict and Negotiation is a truly independent, not-for-profit and non-partisan peace-making, research and training institution, one of the leading non-governmental organizations in the Caucasus. In 1994, thanks to financial support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the organizational support from the Center for International Security and Arms Control of Stanford University, ICCN has formed into an NGO registered in Georgia (Registration Certificate #1755 issued by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia on 03.11.1994). Since then ICCN plays an active role in peace-building and civil society-building in Georgia and the Caucasus region. ICCN has professional experience in research and analysis, including regional security studies, sociological surveys and public opinion polling, human rights focusing on gender equity, religious freedom, ethnic minority rights, IDP/refugee studies, peace education including training in a number of fields, public diplomacy (track-two) efforts across conflict zones, cross-border activities and peace campaigning, media and publishing activities, international expertise, cross-regional networking. (Read more on ICCN, Georgia).

List of the ICCN publications.

Linkedwith our presentation of Naw Zipporrah Sein – Burma/Myamar.

Linked also with our presentation of U.N Must Act to End Attacks on Karen in Burma/Myamar.

The Karen Women’s Organisation was formed in 1949 and has a membership of over 30,000 women. The K.W.O is a community-based organisation of Karen women working in development and relief in the refugee camps on the Thai border and with I.D.Ps (Internally Displaced Persons) and women inside Burma. Since our formation in 1949 we have expended our focus from one of purely social welfare to try to encourage an awareness of Women’s Rights and to promote women’s participation in politics.

The objectives of the KWO

To assist women in the endeavour to be free from all forms of oppression.

To promote and empower women in all spheres of life, including education and general living standards.

To encourage women to participate in the struggle for freedom, democracy and equality.

To develop women’s knowledge, ability and skills, including political and organisational skills.

To achieve the rights of women and equal status with men.

To promote and maintain Karen culture and traditions.

KWO aims to empower women through offering various capacity building trainings to teach skills, build confidence and create new opportunities so that women will be better able to solve their own problems. We are working hard to educate ourselves and our communities so that we can work more effectively and advocate for our struggle on the international stage. (Read more on Karen Women org).

KWO links.

Continuer la lecture de « The Karen Women's Organization KWO – Burma/Myamar »

Linked with our presentation of Ana Raffai – Croatia.

Center for Peace Studies: Homepage, Contact, and address: the McMaster University, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Togo Salmon Hall 726, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4M2 – Canada.

Peace Studies is concerned with war and peace, violence and nonviolence, conflict and conflict transformation. Peace researchers also study concepts of justice and the ways in which people organize and wage conflict to achieve what they perceive as just ends. By focusing attention on problems of conflict, particularly of a violent nature, researchers attempt to improve our methods of analyzing and dealing with these problems. Peace studies is an interdisciplinary field, encompassing subject areas from the Faculties of Science and Social Sciences as well as Humanities.

Courses: The University Calendar is intended to let you know the range of courses that the Peace Studies program offers. We cannot offer all of those courses every year; any course in the undergraduate calendar must be offered once in every three year period. The following courses are being offered in 2005-06. Many of the courses listed are or will be linked to an electronic version of the course outline.

Events;

Undergraduate Program.

Linked with our presentation of Irina Yanovskaya – Georgia.

Implementing Partners: the Center for Regional Integration and Conflict Resolution (CRICR) in Yerevan, Armenia, the International Centre on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) in Tbilisi, Georgia, the International Center for Social Research (ICSR) in Baku, Azerbaijan, and Laboratory of Ethnoconflictology, Department of Social Philosophy and Ethnology, Stavropol University, Russia.

(Excerpt): Project objectives

The objective of the two-year project is the strengthening and development of the regional conflictological network created in partnership with MacArthw Foundation. The project is aimed at:

a) strengthening of the present regional conflictological and social research network, and expansion of the area of its activities, b) enlargement of the network functions, c) increasing participation activities of university conflictological centers in the network.

The expansion of the area of activities will be realized by means of involving partners from Russian university centers of Northern Caucasus. The partnership with a group of conflictologists from Stavropol University has been primarily negotiated, which will be realized in the frame of the new project. The strengthening of the present regional conflictological network will take place through equipping the center-members of the present network and newly involved centers. In particular, it is planned to make additional expenditures for equipping Stavropol University center in order to provide technical base for its involvement in the network.

The active involvement of specialists-conflictologists in the work of the network on the object of discussion of newly received information, training specialists and practical activities on conflict resolution and prevention in the region will also favor the strengthening of the network. (Read more about on this project site).