Global supply chains are often undermined by exploitation, corruption, and weak governance that perpetuate poverty and instability. Unilever introduced its Responsible Partner Policy to address these systemic risks. The post Unilever’s Responsible Partner Policy appeared first on Vision of Humanity.| Vision of Humanity
The United Nations peacebuilding architecture—consisting of the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), the secretary-general’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF), and the Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)—is undergoing its fourth review since its creation in 2005. The purpose of the Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR) is to strengthen the UN’s capacity to prevent conflict and build sustainable peace. Unlike previous processes, this […] The post Whose Peace Is It, Anyway? Defining Ownership in...| IPI Global Observatory
Rising youth unemployment and the digital divide are fuelling instability in fragile societies. IBM’s SkillsBuild for Peace equips marginalised groups with digital skills and career support, turning education into a pathway for stability and long-term growth. The post Building Skills for Peace: IBM SKillsBuild appeared first on Vision of Humanity.| Vision of Humanity
Celtel and Search for Common Ground partnered to expand mobile connectivity in conflict-affected areas, strengthening communication, connecting communities, rebuilding trust, and supporting economic recovery in post-war Sierra Leone.| Vision of Humanity
If history teaches us anything, it is that peace is fragile and contingent. Like any healthy and productive garden, it needs constant tending. The renewed outbreak of fighting in Wapenamanda in Enga Province in August, following the hard-won peace symbolised by the signing of the Peace Accords at the Airways hotel in Port Moresby in ... Read moreAbout the author/s William Kipongi William Kipongi is a research officer in the National Security and International Relations Research Program at the...| Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
IGAD is pushing for an increasingly gender-inclusive peacebuilding in Kenya, as well as its other East African members states.| Peace News Network
Lush Cosmetics' partnership with Colombia’s Peace Community demonstrates how core business activities can become direct peacebuilding mechanisms and support non-violent economic alternatives in conflict-affected areas.| Vision of Humanity
Armed conflict has been on the rise over the past decade. There has been an increase not only in the number of conflicts—more than 120 globally this year—but also the number of individuals affected by conflict-related violence. In contexts like Gaza, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Myanmar, Ethiopia, and elsewhere, civilians and […] The post Why Peacebuilding Must Include Mental Health and Psychosocial Support appeared first on IPI Global Observatory.| IPI Global Observatory
Is it possible to decolonize secularity and extract it from its nest in racialized modern and colonial formations?| Contending Modernities
As peace operations falter worldwide, Namibia’s lasting success shows peacekeeping must be more than a crisis response; it must be a sustained, strategic commitment. Read more.| Vision of Humanity
While nations focus on spending on defence, a network of quiet changemakers is growing, people at the grassroots who refuse to accept conflict as inevitable.| Vision of Humanity
By shifting our perspective, we can uncover pathways for more equitable, locally driven peace initiatives that challenge, rather than reinforce, colonial frameworks.| Contending Modernities
How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?| Contending Modernities
Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.| Contending Modernities
I was born a proud Protestant. A Lutheran in a town still marked by Catholic-Protestant tensions, with Catholic friends who told me I don’t worship right, neighbors who claimed Catholics were polytheists, and a grandmother who wore orange on St. Patrick’s Day (I never quite got that, as we had no connection to Ireland). But […]| The Duck of Minerva
