Peacebuilding Tag

23/09/2019 - Yalda Khosravi - This article concerns one of the projects of the Tehran Peace Museum (TPM), which is called “Talk for Peace.” TPM is a non-governmental organization located in the capital of Iran....

30/04/2019 - Bernando Monzani and Anthony Sarota - Many development and peacebuilding NGOs are working today to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Among these is Search for Common Ground (Search), an international NGO that has, over the years, developed its own approach, called Transforming Violent Extremism (TVE). But what is the evidence that a...

13/12/2018 - Anthony Sarota - In East Africa, Kenya has been more affected by violent extremism and radicalization compared to its neighbors. Although drivers of violent extremist and terrorist incidents in Kenya are a result of many factors—highly unequal economic growth, social and religious grievances, and its proximity with fragile Somalia—the scale and persistence of...

30/11/2018 - Bernando Monzani - On November 12 and 13, 2018, the Italian government hosted the Conference for Libya in Palermo. A high-level event that was strongly pushed by Italy, it aimed to find common ground among internal and external actors for solving the country’s political conflict. ...

23/10/2018 - Bernardo Venturi - The recent limitations to freedom of speech in Tanzania have created some concerns from local civil society organisations (CSOs) to international organisations. The list of limitations enacted by John Pombe Magafuli after his election as Tanzanian President in 2015 is rather long and it goes from banning opposition rallies to...