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What can you expect to cover in PeaceRep's new short course, 'Conflict Transitions in the Eastern Mediterranean Region'? https://lnkd.in/ezWPNNWS 📌 Key actors and cultural, legal & political approaches to peace in the EMR 📌 The importance of socio-cultural & historical contexts 📌 The local, regional & international dynamics that fuel conflicts and how conflict management has adapted to new conflict dynamics ⏰ Application deadline: 31 October 2024

In volatile areas, effective conflict resolution for humanitarian work emphasizes three key techniques: 1) Inclusive Dialogue and Mediation: engaging local leaders and stakeholders to foster trust and collective problem-solving; 2) Conflict-Sensitive Programming: which minimizes unintended harm by integrating community perspectives into all project stages; 3) Building Local Capacity: empowering local actors to manage disputes and sustain peace efforts. These approaches enhance impartiality and respect community dynamics, ensuring interventions are both culturally relevant and sustainable.

applying Ihsan to resolve international disputes involves promoting ethical conduct, encouraging compassion, committing to justice, facilitating dialogue, emphasizing forgiveness, advocating non-violent solutions, building strong relationships, and fostering a culture of respect. By integrating these principles into conflict resolution processes, nations can work towards more effective, equitable, and lasting solutions that contribute to global peace and stability.

💡 “What we are really trying to do is to open up an understanding of the land sector to a whole variety of actors, whether that is people working in food security, human rights, democracy and governance, advocacy, to [people at] a local level to help them understand the elements of the land system. We help them understand how it impacts the conflict context, in a way that is accessible.” - CDA Senior Associate and Senior Fellow at the Duke Center for International Development, Maureen Moriarty, PhD, CAMS 🇨🇴 Developed on request of the Government of Colombia, the original Do No Harm in Land Tenure and Property Rights tool assisted with conflict sensitive implementation of the Victim’s Law, which governed the return of stolen and abandoned land to internally displaced Colombians and provided reparations following decades of civil conflict. 🌍 Conflict Sensitivity in Land Governance builds on the original tool and recognizes the evolving understanding of the relationship between land and conflict in complex contexts, including the dynamic impact of climate change.

After the successful launch of the Global Alliance to Spare Water from Armed Conflicts on 23 May in New York, #GenevaWaterHub organized an event “Alliance to Spare Water from Armed Conflicts: An Innovative Tool for Peacebuilding” at the 3rd Environmental Peacebuilding Conference #EnPax2024 in The Hague. Thank you #WeinthalErika (Duke University, United States), #TobiasvonLossow (Clingendael), #WimZwijnenburg (PAX), #TadesseKebebew (Geneva Water Hub), #MichikoFukase (UNICEF) for your valuable insights and support to the Alliance. The Global Alliance for Sparing Water from Armed Conflicts intends to ensure greater compliance with international law protecting freshwater and water-related installation in armed conflicts, better inform on the long-term humanitarian consequences resulting from armed conflicts, and harness expertise from the development and humanitarian sector to identify action, which can increase pre-conflict preparedness and resilience of water infrastructure. To achieve these aims, the Alliance will generate and distribute knowledge on reverberating effects, inform political and legal processes, work on pre-conflict preparedness and resilience of the water infrastructure, advocate for better protection and compliance, and work with partners to amplify its impact and foster collective action. Strengthened collaboration among diverse partners and actors from the peace, development, and humanitarian communities is essential for enhanced resilience. It improves monitoring, reporting, and accountability. It brings a variety of experience, knowledge, perspectives and insights. It helps disseminate the IHL rules and builds the culture of compliance.

Working within the complex realities of conflict requires a deep understanding of the context you are operating in. This makes Conflict Analysis a crucial component in the work of humanitarian, development, and peacebuilding practitioners alike.   It offers a road map and first insight into the dynamics of conflict and peace on the ground.    Wanting to navigate this network of power structures, historical grievances and underlying root causes without this roadmap would be like blindly walking through a maze.    So, to make sure you do not get lost or unintendedly do more harm than good, Conflict Analysis is the cornerstone of effective engagement with a conflict context and peacebuilding. It enables us to:    ➡ Map root causes of conflict  ➡ Develop inclusive and strategic interventions  ➡ Identify potential pathways towards peace    Join our course on Conflict Analysis for Sustaining Peace to gain the skills and techniques for conducting an inclusive conflict analysis: 🔗https://lnkd.in/demqS9bQ    #Peacebuilding #ConflictPrevention #UNSSC #SustainableDevelopment #ProfessionalDevelopment 

Nov 6 is the United Nations day on conflict and the environment: #EnvConflictDay. Here are 5 priorities for the international community to reduce the humanitarian and environmental consequences of armed conflict.

How can we address social media’s impact on conflict dynamics and peace efforts? Our new report with Build Up ^ and UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) explores how to implement and monitor social media clauses in peace agreements through a practical framework.

Effective land conflict management requires a systematically synergistic leadership and peaceful peace-building approach. By fostering inclusive dialogue, transparent decision-making, and fair dispute resolution, we can reduce tensions, respect local rights, and promote sustainable development. Together, we can build long-term stability and resilience within communities." #Leadership #PeaceBuilding #ConflictManagement

Some (rare) good news in UK conflict policy! We have a new All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Conflict Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding! Huge congrats to Mercy Corps and Search for Common Ground for pulling this together and to the new APPG officers for taking this on! Amid surging global conflict and relentless funding cuts, seeing cross-party backing for an APPG on peace/conflict issues gives me hope that we can make conflict prevention a top priority for the UK going forwards. https://lnkd.in/eWujW3A8