Full Coverage: Conflict resolution

08.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

07.04.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress.

02.04.2008 Aid has made a big difference to Afghan lives, but major weaknesses have severely constrained its capacity to reduce poverty. ACBR’s report Falling short: Aid effectiveness in Afghanistan published by Oxfam reveals that donors have failed to meet their aid pledges and much of the aid is wasted, ineffective or uncoordinated.

02.04.2008

31.03.2008

07.03.2008 BOGOTA, Mar 7 (OneWorld) - Amid the escalating diplomatic crisis with Venezuela, Ecuador, and now Nicaragua, tens of thousands of Colombians marched yesterday in solidarity with the victims of their country's violent conflict. They were joined by demonstrators in capital cities across the continent, as well as Paris and New York.

03.03.2008 NEW YORK, Mar 3 (OneWorld) - A leading international aid organization has released a new study concluding that efforts to bring peace and security to Afghanistan are more likely to succeed if they build on the work of traditional councils and focus on the threats Afghans face in their everyday lives.

23.02.2008 The Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army have signed a deal declaring a "permanent ceasefire" at peace talks in Juba, southern Sudan.
From Sunday Monitor

22.02.2008

10.02.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 9 (OneWorld) - Efforts to restore peace in Kenya will be doomed to failure if women are not invited to the negotiating table, civil society activists warned international mediators this week.

30.01.2008 As the death toll from post-election violence in Kenya rises to an estimated 800, we have received a moving reaction from Father Gabriele Pipinato: "I do not want to tell you the horrors we have witnessed, but only say a few words about what our community is experiencing." Fr. Pipinato is a founding trustee of the OneWorld International Foundation.

26.01.2008 NEW YORK, Jan 25 (OneWorld) - More than 1,000 people continue to die every day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a result of armed conflict fueled predominantly by the world's thirst for gold and diamonds.

22.01.2008 The six-year long ceasefire between Sri Lankan government and Tamil tigers had seen the economy grow by an annual average of over 12% in the war-affected north-east. The Sinhala-dominated southern and western parts too had gained. It now remains to be seen where the current hostilities will lead the economy.

21.01.2008 As the debate on Special Economic Zones (SEZ) continues, a novel idea has been proposed by the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) to make farmers direct shareholders in an agri-based food processing venture at Nellore, in southern Andhra Pradesh. SEZs are lands earmarked for industrial growth with massive subsidies granted to capitalists.

18.01.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - As they travel the country searching for votes, each of the big three Democratic candidates for president has pledged to withdraw large numbers of troops from Iraq during their first year in office.

31.12.2007 United Nations Peacebuilding Fund, set up last year to help countries ravaged by conflicts, will now be available to Nepal. There is an urgent need to consolidate the country’s peaceful gains after the government and Maoists formally ended the decade-long civil war, which left thousands dead and many more displaced.

27.12.2007 Intense diplomatic efforts are continuing in Afghanistan to prevent the expulsion of a senior UN official accused of engaging in talks with leaders of the Taliban.

17.12.2007 At a recent rally calling for an end to the violence in Darfur, genocide survivors, religious leaders, Olympic medal winners, and others participated in a symbolic Olympic torch relay ending at the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC, highlighting China's role as the main economic and political supporter of the Khartoum regime.

30.11.2007

23.11.2007 Economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in an interview speaks out his mind and rejects the perceived notions on issues like Islamic terrorism, clash of civilisation, globalisation, war on terror, etc. He believes that civilisation is not just about religion and that the real objective of globalisation ought to be avoidance of inequality.