Responding to COVID-19: Voices from Local Peacebuilders

by | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog

The spread of the novel COVID-19 virus in more than 135 countries has drastically disrupted people’s ways of life and has paralyzed world economies—exerting formidable pressures on governments and healthcare systems struggling to curb the daily increases of new cases....

COVID-19 and its implications for local peacebuilding

by | Mar 19, 2020 | Blog

It is time for the peacebuilding community to join efforts in addressing the COVID-19 crisis. Let us especially support local peacebuilders in the Global South to better prepare for the spread of the pandemic and deal with it’s impacts in their communities. By Mie...

We must be Artists, Visionaries and Change Makers

by | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog

On April 24th and 25th 2019, Conducive Space for Peace (CSP), in collaboration with Humanity United, hosted a two-day meeting in New York. The meeting brought together 35 thought and practice leaders from local and international peacebuilding organisations, UN...

Doing Peace Differently

by | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog

By Mie Roesdahl, Conducive Space for Peace I recently met Gatwal Augustine Gatkuoth from South Sudan who works to empower youth in peacebuilding.  In our talk about peacebuilding he told me that he and his youth organisation are spending a lot of time writing...