Entrevista con Dra. Manuela Mesa

Entrevista con Dra. Manuela Mesa En esta edición de Ideas for Peace, te presentamos la entrevista que hicimos con la doctora Manuela Mesa en 2019. La Prof. Mesa es Co-Directora del Instituto Universitario sobre Derechos Humanos, Democracia, Cultura de Paz y no violencia (DEMOSPAZ) en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. También es la Directora del […]

La Palabra y la Paz

Antonio Bascones analiza la importancia de las palabras para la construcción de discursos que promuevan la paz y la tolerancia

Journalists-NGOs Cooperation For Peacebuilding

In the race for getting audience attention during an era of compassion fatigue, cooperation between journalists and NGOs is not only beneficial for both parties, but it also contributes to peacebuilding efforts by improving human rights reporting, facilitating aid granting, and enabling change in the mainstream media’s violence-oriented journalistic model.

Selection of Poems from The Unfold Pinnacle

The poems tell the story of marginalized tribal women who were living in the Left Wing Infested (LWE) relief camps in India. These poems are part of a larger collection of poems, ‘The Unfold Pinnacle’ that gives the marginalized women and girls a voice through poetry and humanize development work with the intimate stories of those most directly affected by poverty and violence.

Moral Lessons Humanity Should Learn from the Coronavirus Pandemic

Amidst the shocking waves of the coronavirus pandemic that has struck the world, Jerry Locula shares his thoughts on how he sees the world today, and how the world will never be the same again. He highlights that peace is not squarely the absence of war, thereby auguring that the coronavirus has derailed personal peace and societal peace. He urges humanity to appreciate every little thing that was once taken for granted before arrival of the coronavirus. He believes the world has changed and new normal has arrived at the doorsteps of human culture. Jerry urges every individual person to show a little bit of love and kindness so that our world will be a better place and at peace for all.

Non-Governmental Organizations, The Two-Edged Sword for Peace and Development: The Case of Karamoja Region

Non-Governmental Organizations, The Two-Edged Sword for Peace and Development: The Case of Karamoja Region Author: Wyclife Ong’eta, and Salome Nyambura Translated into Spanish by Sylvia Cespedes Introduction Over the past 100 years relatively more NGOs have tended to operate in fields that are also of great concern to national governments, for example, economics, finance, commerce, peace, […]

From peacekeeping to peacebuilding

From peacekeeping to peacebuilding Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/18/2004 Category: Editorial The current general predicament facing UN peacekeepers has been highlighted by the recent front-page news of the fatal bitterness that still exists between Serbs and  Albanians in Mitrovica, Kosovo (or Kosova as the Albanian majority prefer it.). The BBC […]