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Patterns in Reconciliation

IFOR has published ten Patterns. Patterns currently available are:

Patterns 10: You Changed my Life: Lessons learned from IFOR's Women Peacemakers Program

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Patterns 9: Peace in the Abrahamic Traditions

In this issue of Patterns, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors
examine peace service in their respective traditions.

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Patterns 7: Just Words
Quotations on gender, nonviolence and peace
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‘No Royal Road to Reconciliation: Reflections on trauma and some psychological and spiritual possibilities it brings to reconciliation’
by Gene Knudsen Hoffman;

‘The Nonviolence of the Brave: Cultures of Peace and Communities of Faith & Nonviolence in Different Spiritual Traditions” by Elise Boulding & the Multifaith Nonviolence Group, UK, with an introduction
by Máiread Corrigan Maguire;

‘Women and Peacemaking: Lessons Learned from the Women Peacemakers Program’
by Shelley Anderson.

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People Building Peace

People Building Peace II: Successful stories of civil society

People Building Peace II seeks to document and draw attention to the important role civil society is playing in preventing and resolving conflict around the globe. In so doing, it wishes to fill a gap by showing that people on the ground, ranging from women, youth and faith-based organizations to artists and media, can make and already have made a positive difference in many conflict areas.

The publication includes over 60 stories of civil society successes, many which have never previously been documented and most of them written by practitioners involved in the initiatives themselves. These stories are accompanied by thematic analysis and insights from key experts in the field of conflict prevention such as Hizkias Assefa, Catherine Barnes, Norbert Ropers and Andres Serbin and by personal anecdotes from a number of high-profile peacebuilders such as President Xanana Gusmao, Desmond Tutu, Her Majesty Queen Noor, together with a foreword by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

You can order the publication through Lynne Rienner Publishers, on www.rienner.com.

People Building Peace II was launched to much acclaim at the Global Conference, the largest gathering of civil society organizations on conflict prevention and peacebuilding at the United Nations in New York on 19 July 2005. Paul van Tongeren, Executive Director of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention, heralded the publication as ‘testimony to the potential of peacebuilding.’