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Peace and reconciliation

News, comment and features on peace and reconciliation in the developing world

September 2024

  • A sign reads COP29 Baku, Azerbaijan November 11-22 2024

    It is not hypocritical for Azerbaijan to call for a global truce at Cop29

  • Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev, watches a military parade

    Azerbaijan accused of hypocrisy after calling for Cop29 global truce

August 2024

  • SUDAN-CONFLICT-POLITICS<br>Members of Sudan's armed forces take part in a military parade held on Army Day in Gadaref on August 14, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

    Opinion
    Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its horrific civil war

    Mukesh Kapila
    The country’s traumatised people are desperate for a new approach to end atrocities and famine in beleaguered country
  • A middle-aged African man stares at the camera as police sit behind him in a courtroom

    ‘Justice is served’: relief at ex-Kony commander’s conviction in Uganda

    Most welcome Thomas Kwoyelo’s guilty verdict but some say the ex-child soldier was himself a victim of the LRA
  • A white UN armoured vehicle passes African women carrying bundles on their head

    UN warns that South Sudan faces ‘existential crisis’ ahead of uncertain polls

    Head of UN mission calls for more peacekeepers as security council told that the nation is far from prepared for its first election as an independent country

June 2024

  • A group of Nigerian women singing together with two playing the drums

    ‘This goes beyond the church’: the Nigerian women in a sisterhood of millions

    While conflict has divided communities, a fellowship of married women offers everything from loans to spiritual guidance

May 2024

  • A group of women stand in a line with their arms on each other's shoulders.

    ‘We all share the same pain’: can the Israeli-Palestinian peace movement rebuild after 7 October?

    As the conflict in Gaza continues, reconciliation may seem a distant dream, but on both sides there are those working for peace

April 2024

  • Semi-uniformed men fire their AK-47 assault rifles in the air in a city

    UK Foreign Office holding secret talks with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary group

  • Rwanda, reconciliation afteer the1994 genocide.<br>Marianna Nyirantagorama, 58 I am the only one from our family who survived the genocide. My mother, two brothers and four sisters ended up in a mass grave. I was one of the few survivors in the midst of a crowd of dead people in the church where most of my family were murdered. I played dead among the bloody corpses. This man killed my eldest sister. In sociotherapy I could forgive him. I saw his remorse. Marc Nyandekwe, 60 I spent six years and nine months in prison. After my release, I couldn’t face Marianna. At first, I barricaded myself in my house. Later I went to work elsewhere. Occasionally, I returned to my family. Marianna told my wife I no longer needed to flee. I was convinced it was a trap. She brewed banana beer and offered me a bottle. I refused. I was afraid she wanted to poison me. But she lent us money. She saw how poor our family was. She gave me jobs. The woman whose sister I killed kept me alive.

    ‘He killed my sister. Now I see his remorse’: the extraordinary stories of survivors of the Rwandan genocide who forgave their attackers

March 2024

  • johan galtung (nb the credit is singular, Transcend Media Service not Services as the online version has it)

    Johan Galtung obituary

    Norwegian sociologist who founded the discipline of peace studies and proposed creative solutions for many of the world’s conflicts

January 2024

  • Clive Myrie

    Moments of hope
    Out of the ashes, the dignity and compassion of Israeli peace activists gives me hope

    Clive Myrie
    Hamas’s murder of humanitarians such as Vivian Silver doesn’t show her work was in vain, says BBC News presenter Clive Myrie

December 2023

  • Rowan Williams

    Remember the tenacity of 400,000 Welsh women a century ago. Then use your power to shape events today

    Rowan Williams
    As we celebrate the return to Wales of the peace petition sent to the US in the 1920s, we should also harness its spirit of togetherness , says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

November 2023

  • David Lammy

    Labour will work for a Palestinian state

    David Lammy
    A ceasefire now would embolden Hamas to widen the conflict, says the shadow foreign secretary. But Labour promises real work towards a two-state solution

October 2023

  • Noy Katsman

    ‘Do not use our pain to bring death’: plea to Israel from peace activists’ grieving families

    Relatives of campaigners killed by Hamas, such as Hayim Katsman, are among those arguing against revenge

June 2023

  • David Graham

    Other lives
    David Graham obituary

    Other lives: Peace activist who joined the Land Reform Movement in India in 1950s

April 2023

  • The first cohort of staff and students in peace studies at Bradford University assemble for a portrait, October 1974

    ‘They thought we were all communists’: Bradford’s peace studies department turns 50

    University department derided by Thatcher as a ‘problem’ – and now a leading centre of conflict resolution – celebrates anniversary

November 2022

  • Redwan Hussein, left, representing Ethiopia’s government, shakes hands with Tigray’s delegate Getachew Reda at a press conference in Pretoria.

    Ethiopian civil war: parties agree on end to hostilities

    Breakthrough ‘monumental’ says prime minister after two-year conflict between north Tigray and federal forces that displaced millions

August 2022

  • White dove flying

    The Holocaust refugee who was driven to pacifism

    Letters: Albert Beale recalls pacifist group meetings hosted by a German-Jewish woman whose family members had been murdered by the Nazis

June 2022

  • Judith Elkan, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 2018

    Other lives
    Judith Elkan obituary

    Other lives: Psychotherapist and founder of the Friends of Bereaved Families Forum to support reconciliation in the Middle East

May 2022

  • Michael Henderson

    Other lives
    Michael Henderson obituary

    Other lives: Christian journalist, author and broadcaster
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