The Rapid Response Fund (RRF) concept recognises that in a conflict situation you need to act quickly and that people on the ground have the best knowledge of how and where money needs to be spent. With this in mind, the RRF was set up to provide local committees with money which they could spend [...]
Archive: July 2009
Rapid Response Funds – lessons learnt
29 July 2009“GO GIVERS” Bright lights in economic gloom
23 July 2009A report from Barclays Wealth Management suggests that wealthy philanthropists are not cutting back on their charity commitments despite the global economic downturn. “Tomorrow’s Philanthropist”, polled 500 high net worth investors in the UK and US, emphasising that respondents are still highly committed to giving, despite their assets and businesses being under strain. When asked [...]
Latest from Caux: Sri Lanka and Sudan
22 July 2009I went to hear a Sri Lankan peace activist yesterday. It is very hard to know what to do, in a situation where ‘apparently’ the war is over, Sri Lanka is now at peace, and even his friends are saying ‘Why do you keep going on about peace? You are just stirring things up.’ He [...]
Chief Exec latest from Forum on Human Security
21 July 2009“Last night’s entertainment at the Caux Forum on Human Security was a film about the acquisition of nuclear weapons by India and then shortly after, Pakistan. I wouldn’t have thought this could sustain the interest, even of a bunch of peaceniks, for 90 minutes, but remarkably it did, by showing the extreme diversity of views [...]
Blog from the Caux Forum on Human Security
20 July 2009“We are in what was, at the beginning of the twentieth century, a luxury hotel, with medieval hall features, terraces etc, overlooking Lake Geneva. Now it’s filled with some of the most disparate, but interesting people I’ve met in a long time, at the second Initiatives for Change Forum on Human Security. An important part [...]
“What is happening today in Somalia is unacceptable and inhuman” warns Asha Hagi
16 July 2009Asha Hagi Elmi has told the European Voice that the situation in Somaila “is very alarming. If the international community does not respond positively, the situation will get even more out of hand”. Read more here. http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/decision-looms-on-support-for-security-force-in-somalia/65435.aspx
Read Peace Direct’s report on DR Congo in Guardian weekly
08 July 2009Read Peace Direct’s report on DR Congo on Guardian weekly here: http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1155&catID=17
Peace Direct welcomes government shift in aid funding
06 July 2009Peace Direct welcomes the government’s shift in funding from traditional aid areas to conflict prevention. The Department for International Development announcement that it plans to double the amount spent in fragile states to a billion pounds a year has been hailed as “A common sense investment in the future.” Carolyn Hayman, Chief Executive of Peace [...]
Power to the Peaceful!
01 July 2009So says Michael Franti, musician, poet, film-maker… and inspired advocate for Peace. By way of introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M Peace Direct supporters Sophia Hill and Pete Yeo caught up with Michael and his band, Spearhead, after their recent gig in Shepherds Bush, London. Michael Franti & Spearhead tour details: http://www.stayhuman.org/tourdates.php After leafleting the departing audience, Sophia and [...]
