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February 07, 2023

Episode 5: Let’s build peace, here and now, Feb 27 2023

In the next episode of ‘Let’s build peace: here and now’ hosted by the Foundations for Peace Network, Melanie Greenberg of Humanity United will speak with Nomfundo Walaza, co-founder of Unyoke Foundation and a clinical psychologist about her work on the empowerment and the healing of victims of torture, trauma and violence; and with Colette Rausch about her work in war-affected countries around the globe at the intersection of justice, trauma, and peacebuilding.

Women in Peace

Posted on by Andrew Milner

A critically important lesson from the ’Let’s build peace, here and now’ conversations with local peacebuilders has been about the centrality of women in peacebuilding. From Serbia to Northern Ireland, local peace efforts not only involve anti-war activism, but also women coming together on issues of day-to-day concern to them – not just peace. This breaks…

‘This is where we connect’ – Jelena Memet

Posted on by Andrew Milner

An emerging thread in the ‘Let’s build peace, here and now’ conversations with local peacebuilders is the transient nature of peace, the understanding that ‘peace, not conflict, is episodic.’ In order to unpack this further we spoke to Serbian peacebuilders Jelena Memet, Anita Pantelić and Galina Maksimović who talked about the ways in which ‘war’…

The politics of peace and remembering – Anita Pantelić

Posted on by Andrew Milner

An emerging thread in the ‘Let’s build peace here and now’ conversations with local peacebuilders is the transient nature of peace, the understanding that ‘peace, not conflict, is episodic.’ In order to unpack this further, we spoke to Serbian peacebuilders Jelena Memet, Anita Pantelić and Galina Maksimović who talked about the ways in which ‘war’…

An awakening

Posted on by Barry Knight

I have suppressed the memory of this until now.  It is New Orleans in 2010. I am working with the wonderful Dr Albert Ruesga, President of the Greater New Orleans Foundation.  The issue is racial justice. We want to make the principle of equality the main priority for the Foundation. There are many hurdles, but…

What if Purpose Ruled the World

Posted on by Anna Tervahartiala

As the pandemic has stood the world on its head, one of the debates which has been thrown wide open is that of the future of the economy. This article is part of PSJP’s inquiry into how markets can be made to work for the common good and how economies can be made to serve the general interest, rather than that of the few.

Steward ownership transfers leadership of a company to the individuals operating the company. It places purpose over profit and ensures longevity, good business as well as a diversified economy. The model is gaining traction in Europe. Armin Steuernagel explains why this is an approach the world cannot afford to ignore.

All embracing

Posted on by Andrew Milner

This is the first of a series of blogs linked to the ‘Let’s build peace: here and now’ conversations being organised by the Foundations for Peace (FFP) Network. Through these conversations, the FFP Network and their partners want to create a space to tell the stories of peacebuilders who have been closest to the ground…

The limits of resilience

Posted on by Andrew Milner

Sometime during a recent PEXForum conference, I wrote on my notepad that resilience has become the development sector’s new buzzword. Others have made the same discovery. PSJP’s new paper, Building Resilience in International Development lists a raft of references to the term in the later literature of development and it seems that multilateral organisations, foundations,…