Peace through youth sports in Somalia
Friday, August 10th, 2012 Posted in Gender, Peacebuilding, Somalia | 3 Comments »[caption id="attachment_4761" align="alignright" width="334" caption="Youth play football in Galkayo"][/caption] “O Sport, You are Peace! You forge happy bonds between the peoples” - Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics As the world has been focusing its eyes on the Olympics, the ...
Radio in Rwanda: A soap opera to heal community tensions
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 Posted in Peacebuilding, Rwanda | No Comments »[caption id="attachment_4272" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Actors play out tensions in the soap opera"][/caption] Every Wednesday the radios in Rwanda come to life as characters, familiar as old friends, emerge for another installment of the soap opera ‘Musekeweya’ - or ‘New Dawn’. An ...
Tribute to a peacemaker: Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
Friday, July 15th, 2011 Posted in Kenya, Peacebuilding | 4 Comments »[caption id="attachment_2493" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Dekha"][/caption] Oxfam is shocked at the untimely passing of peacemaker and activist Dekha Ibrahim Abdi in a car accident in Kenya. We have lost a powerful ally in the fight against poverty and injustice. Dekha grew up ...
Helping people protect their rights in DR Congo
Friday, October 1st, 2010 Posted in Conflict, DR Congo, Peacebuilding | 4 Comments »[caption id="attachment_745" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A community campaign against illegal detentions"][/caption] Last month I visited Oxfam’s protection projects in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where we have set up 33 Protection Committees. The committees are made up of local volunteers who want to contribute ...
Next few months some of the most crucial in Sudan’s history
Friday, September 24th, 2010 Posted in Conflict, Governance, Peacebuilding, Press release, Sudan | 1 Comment »Today world leaders including President Obama and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are attending a special summit on Sudan in New York. Time is running out to prepare for the referendum on southern independence, and numerous key issues are still unresolved. Darfur seems ...
Monitoring election violence in Burundi via SMS
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 Posted in Burundi, Peacebuilding | No Comments »Burundi goes to the polls again this week, with parliamentary elections scheduled to take place on 23 July. Opposition parties have said they will boycott the vote, claiming that members have been arrested, harassed and tortured. Local ...