Links
Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Asian Muslim Action Network (AMAN)
Berghof Centre for Peace Support
Center for for Justice and Peace Peacebuilding
Coalition for Peace in Africa (COPA)
Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA)
Monterey Institute of International Studies: Challenges to Peacebuilding
Country Progammes
Myanmar
CPCS works predominantly in Myanmar towards democracy and a stable peace in conjunction with local practitioners belonging to the network.
CPCS works with its partners to strengthen the existing structures for peace inside Myanmar and to take forward their identified strategies.
Recently CPCS launched the book entitled Listening to Voices from Inside: Myanmar Civil Society's Response to Cyclone Nargis. For more information, see Research.
Timor Leste
CPCS works predominantly in Timor Leste towards building a stable peace in conjunction with local practitioners belonging to the network.
CPCS through its Action Asia network alongside local partners HAK Association (Hukum - Law, Hak Asasi - Basic Rights, and Keadilan - Justice) and NGO Forum (FONGTIL) have developed a programme which has a number of complimentary components and is based on the analysis, sharing and learning drawn from the participants in Timor Leste during initial consultations (including Timorese leaders of martial and traditional arts, gangs, NGOs, youth, the Church and others).
The CPCS's Timor Leste programme components are specifically designed to respond to the key conflicts identified through ongoing analysis with local partners and to reach out horizontally as well as linking the different levels from the community to the top level. The current programme builds on past consultations and activities. The Programme focuses on trust and capacity building for key change agents for peace (such as top- and mid-level actors); Peacebuilding training for martial arts groups and security forces; Processes for higher-level reconciliation and mediation; and Peace Journalism Training; and building strategies and networks. Through targeted aims CPCS with its partners aims to make the difference in developing and empowering a proactive movement of people towards building peace and democracy in Timor Leste.
Sri Lanka
CPCS has a longstanding relationship with local network partners working in peace in Sri Lanka. CPCS has supported various initiatives and is in the process of designing its current programme with partners.
Sri Lanka has been home to protracted violent conflict for over four decades. Recent analysis suggests a further escalation in the conflict, the impact of which is being keenly felt by the people of Sri Lanka. The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies plans to bring together peace practitioners working directly on the conflict in Sri Lanka, to analyze the current situation and discuss potential strategies for intervention. These Sri Lankan based peace practitioners are experts on their context having worked at a multitude of levels: top; middle; and grass roots with communities most affected by the conflict. Sri Lankan participants will be accompanied in this process by peace practitioners from the Asian region bringing experiences from situations like Nepal, Mindanao and Cambodia. The consultation will generate a Sri Lanka owned conflict analysis, a foundation for Action Asia's future strategic intervention into the Sri Lankan conflict.
Orissa, India
CPCS aims to build the capacity for conflict transformation and peace building for Hindu and Christian development workers in Orissa, India through multiple programmes.
The Conflict Transformation Course creates a positive space for participants to interact; equipping the participants with skills and knowledge regarding peace building and conflict transformation, the Course also allows them to begin dialogue with each other about the challenges their respective communities face--both their individual communities and their interaction with other communities. The Centre seeks to extend the education of Conflict Transformation Course graduates through mediation training, in which individuals work to develop skills in handling tense situations, deep listening, and how to design peace training workshops--just to name a few.
The Peace Research Methodology Course targets individuals without formal training in academic research in order to provide a basic understanding of the theoretical, conceptual, and empirical foundations for research in the social sciences and of foundational concepts and theories in peace studies and peace research.
Finally, CPCS works with various civil society organisations in order to analyse individual programme experiences with the goal of improving international peacebuilding efforts.
Manipur, India
In February 2010, CPCS plans to conduct a conflict and context analysis in Manipur, India to determine future peace programmes in the area.
Nepal
The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, through the Action Asia network, has been working on a range of efforts in Nepal since 2003, and finished its programmes in 2008.
As a result of an assessment visit to Nepal in late 2006, CPCS, through Action Asia, developed its Nepal programme beginning in 2007 with the implementation of the Peace and Trust Building Course for representatives of civil society organisations, trade unions, police, military and government ministries such as the Ministry for Peace and Reconstruction. Many issues and themes have emerged out of these various activities and have led Action Asia to further develop and consolidate its work in Nepal. As a result, in 2007 Action Asia opened an office in Nepal, hiring a Kathmandu based Programme Manager, in order to facilitate greater empowerment for Nepalese people designing Nepalese solutions.