Srinagar, 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 Minster has once again excluded the voices of 50 percent of the population in the process. We, the Athwaas members- an alliance [...]
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Archive: October, 2009
Women in the peace process in Kashmir
Tom’s blog from Nepal
As 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 Dehwali (festival of light) 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
84 human rights and humanitarian groups in the Congo Advocacy Coalition have denounced the U.N.’s failure to act over the actions taken by the Congolese government’s military operation in eastern Congo, which is backed by U.N. peacekeepers. The operation, which is aimed at neutralising the threat to civilians from the Rwandan Hutu militia group FDLR, [...]
Election violence in Afghanistan
Stopping the personal becoming political As anyone who watches the news will know, the situation in Afghanistan is worsening day by day. Over the past 4 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 [...]
