Monday, 23 December 2019

Peace in the Triple Nexus: a response

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Development Initiatives have produced a thought-provoking blog on “the Nexus”; which sounds like an exciting new film for Christmas, but i...
Tuesday, 3 December 2019

Innovative finance, conflict, ... and peace?

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Can private finance unlock potential to help break cycles of conflict and build durable stability and peace? Pertinent questions posed i...
Wednesday, 4 September 2019

Peter da Costa: Teacher, mentor, visionary and friend

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This morning I had the sad privilege of attending the memorial of Peter da Costa, along with some of his family and friends here in Lond...
Friday, 21 December 2018

Peacebuilding: Time to think and act Human?

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What is peacebuilding? That nearly all of you will give slightly (or significantly) different answers to that is part of what I perceive ...
Sunday, 16 September 2018

Nirmala: Nepal's wake up call for donors?

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Nirmala was 13 when she was raped , murdered and left in the rice field that she walked across every day to go to school. She’d had to be...
Friday, 25 May 2018

Nepal, OGP & repeating the loops

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It is said that the definition of madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. Earlier this week I atten...
Monday, 16 April 2018

Syria: Norms, Power & Responsibility to Protect

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In 2005 the United Nations declared that we have a ‘ responsibility to protect’ . That is to say, if humanity watches people being bru...