Blog Archives - Conducive Space for Peace

UNSCR: 2535: Unpacking the latest UN Security Council Resolution on YPS

by admin_mikki | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog

On July 14th, 2020, the United Nations unanimously passed UNSCR 2535, an international policy framework advocating for greater youth participation in peacebuilding processes and humanitarian responses. To help unpack this resolution and its implications for youth-led...

Women Peacebuilders on the Frontlines of the Covid-19 Crisis

by Nina Søraa | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog

During the Nordic Women Mediator’s meeting conducted on June 3rd and 4th 2020, Mie Roesdahl of Conducive Space for Peace is leading a group session on Women Peacebuilders on the Frontlines of the Covid-19 Crisis. Two wise, experienced and innovative women...

Local peacebuilders in the frontlines of COVID-19 responses

by Nina Søraa | Apr 30, 2020 | Blog

As fears of the pandemic spreading in the Global South continue to expose vulnerabilities of local peacebuilding, by early April 2020 Peace Direct, Humanity United, and CSP conducted online consultations with 400 local peacebuilders from 60 countries to gage the...

Responding to COVID-19: Voices from Local Peacebuilders

by Nina Søraa | 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 Nina Søraa | 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...

Hope for Peace in Colombia – but only if local leaders have the space to lead

by admin_mikki | Dec 19, 2019 | Blog

Scattered fruit trees and flowers are struggling in the heat of the beginning dry season of Montes de Maria as we walk on the narrow path to the house of Narciso and Manuela. This region of Montes de Maria was one of the hardest hit by violence in the end of the 90s....

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