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 Minister has once again excluded the voices of 50 per cent of the population in the process. We, the Athwaas members [...]
Archive: October 2009
Women in the peace process in Kashmir
28 October 2009Tom’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 [...]
