The last few weeks have definitely got everyone in the Peace Direct office into the Christmas mood as we’ve been lucky enough to have five fabulous choirs sing for us at tube stations around London. By adding their voice to our call for peace they have helped us to raise over £1300. So I’d like to say a [...]
Archive: 2009
Thank you to our fabulous choirs
22 December 2009Our Christmas Survival Kit
22 December 2009We’re really looking forward to Christmas at Peace Direct, mince pies and silly games, however we all know how stressful it can be – no matter how well your family gets on normally. There’s so much pressure for things to be perfect and it can be easy for tensions to rise. So we’ve put together a [...]
Peace Council Background, Dec 2008
18 December 2009To the north of the capital the paved Salang road links Kabul to the Northern provinces, and the district of Farza is situated about 30 minutes drive from Kabul, towards Parwan province. The land is mostly flat, rising to foothills of between 2,000 and 2,500 metres. Farza sits in the hills of the north-western part [...]
Peace Direct seeks sensational singers, melodic musicians, and brilliant bucket shakers
20 November 2009Will you be part of the Peace Direct Christmas party this year? For 6 days in December Peace Direct will be at London tube stations, spreading some Christmas cheer and raising vital funds to build peace across the world. Will you help us? We’ve already got 5 choirs signed up to sing their hearts out [...]
Women in the peace process in Kashmir
28 October 2009Srinagar, October 27 The Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh has invited all the political parties and groups, including the separatist leaders, to begin exploring a joint solution for peace in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the Prime Minister has once again excluded the voices of 50 per cent of the population in the process. We, the Athwaas members [...]
Tom’s blog from Nepal
23 October 2009As soon as I arrived in Nepal I had to change my plans – what I had expected to be a time of cheer and celebration as I arrived at the end of Dewali (Festival of Lights) had become a source of ethnic tension. The argument was over the dates of the Festival and as [...]
Devastating suffering in DRC shows urgent need for local peacebuilders
15 October 2009Eighty-four human rights and humanitarian groups in the Congo Advocacy Coalition have denounced the UN’s failure to act over the actions taken by the Congolese government’s military operation in eastern Congo, which is backed by UN peacekeepers. The operation, which is aimed at neutralising the threat to civilians from the Rwandan Hutu militia group FDLR, [...]
Election violence in Afghanistan
07 October 2009Stopping the personal becoming political As anyone who watches the news will know, the situation in Afghanistan is worsening day by day. Over the past Four years CPAU has been working with peace councils across the country to understand the root causes of conflict. In a country torn apart by decades of war where traditional [...]
Clinton Global Citizen award for peacebuilding work in Somalia
24 September 2009Peace Direct is delighted to congratulate Asha on being awarded the Clinton Global Citizen Award
Peace Direct seeks Head of Communications.
22 September 2009*** The deadline for applications has now passed. We are no longer accepting applications for this post.*** Are you looking for a new challenge? Peace Direct finds and funds incredibly inspiring and committed people, some of whom are risking their lives to carry out work that will bring peace to communities ripped apart by conflict [...]
