Full Coverage: Peace

23.02.2005 On 10 March the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene a meeting of the Working Group on persons unaccounted for in relation to the events in Kosovo between January 1998 and December 2000.

18.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 18 (OneWorld) - Nepal stands on the ''brink of disaster'' following King Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah's Feb. 1 military coup and an ensuing wave of human rights violations under a palace-decreed state of emergency, according to Amnesty International.

18.02.2005 The Humanitarian Law Centre issued a release on the recent decision of Municipal Court in Vrbas on the lawsuit for compensation of damages against the Republic of Serbia, in the case of police torture over Dragan Sijacki.

17.02.2005 India and Pakistan have agreed to flag off a bus service on April 7 between the Kashmiri cities of Srinagar and Muzaffarabad in India and Pakistan respectively. The news was received with jubilation by kashmiris living on both sides of the border.

16.02.2005 The current visit of the Serbian President, Boris Tadic in Kosovo showed very clearly how far are the perceptions of Kosovo’s new reality by “old enemies”. While Tadic visits Kosovo enclaves giving Serbian flags and pompous speeches on how “Kosovo is part of Serbia and Montenegro”, Albanian political leaders talk on international standards implementation before Kosovo’s final status, whereas civil society activitists protested by throwing rotten eggs in the premises where Tadis met the United Nations representative…

16.02.2005 The official visit by Boris Tadic, President of Serbia, the first since the establishment of international government in 1999, happened in a rather sensitive time for Kosovo. In their reactions to the Tadic's visit, foreign media say that the UN should decide next summer about the progress in the achievement of standards in Kosovo, prior to any discussions about the future status of the province. Several hundred Albanians gathered in the centre of Pristina and later Decane, expressed their dissatisfaction with the visit by the Serb President by throwing snowballs, eggs and rocks at Tadic's motorcade.

12.02.2005

10.02.2005 After the most recent four years of blood-letting, there is no basis for trust on either side, says Gershon Baskin--founder of a jointly-run Israeli and Palestinian think tank--but a small internationally run--and U.S.-led--mediation team could prevent escalation when violence inevitably flares.

08.02.2005 A shy toddler with a strange name is one thread in a larger story of Africans now rebuilding interrupted lives - sometimes after decades of war.

08.02.2005 The verbal whitewashing can't hide the deaths, says a Nobel Prize-winning faith-based humanitarian group that has produced a short film to accompany its petition to bring the troops home.

08.02.2005

03.02.2005 "We must try to look with the eyes of the [survivors]," writes AFSC general secretary Mary Ellen McNish in the nomination letter. "Only with that vision might we overcome our denial of the atrocity of nuclear weapons and demand that governments eliminate rather than develop and spread them."

02.02.2005 In its latest report(January 24), the International Crisis Group states that independence is the only option that could prevent the danger of new conflict in Kosovo. The situation in Kosovo is described as “increasingly dangerous, with possibility of upheavals on larger scale, even war”. The Belgrade politicians say tht the report is in fact a “manual for Kosovo independence”. Dusan Pavlovic, the researcher at the Jefferson Institute in Belgrade, in the interview for OneWorld SEE, says that the ICG Report is, indeed, a possible “manual for independence”, but points out that the Report doesn’t take into consideration two important facts.

02.02.2005 The conflict in Sudan's Darfur region has taken centre-stage at the African Union summit where President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria said AU-sponsored peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels would resume in mid-February.

01.02.2005 "We are expressing our unreserved willingness to help....We are determined to achieve peace in northern Uganda, so that all our people can put their lives together again and engage in development," said the leader of the southern Sudan rebel movement that now exercises a large amount of control over the territory abutting Uganda as a result of the country's recent peace agreement.