Healing Trauma and Building Trust and Tolerance in Rwanda
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Interpeace Peacebuilding in Practice – Paper N. 4 Lessons learned from Peacebuilding Approaches to Psychosocial Support Group Healing in Rwanda 25 years after the Genocide against the Tutsi, trauma healing remains a pressing public health issue in Rwanda. In 2015, a research study conducted by Interpeace and Never Again Rwanda (NAR) showed that many Rwandans [...]
Guatemala: For Memory, Against Impunity
Published: March 18, 2019
Interview via Skype with Guatemala’s first female Attorney General, Claudia Paz y Paz, begins in minute 2:36. Panel event “Guatemala: For Memory, Against Impunity,” presented at the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) on March 17, 2019. The event was co-hosted by Interpeace, the World Organization Against Torture, Casa Allianza, the [...]
South Sudan: World’s Youngest Nation at the Crossroads to Peace
Published: March 14, 2019
Event held at the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), co-hosted by Interpeace: “South Sudan: World’s Youngest Nation at the Crossroads to Peace”. The panelists were: Forest Whitaker – Actor, Director and Founder of the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative (WPDI) and Magdalena Nandege – Peacebuilding activist in South Sudan, Member [...]
Mediation – Understanding through information and dialogue
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How can the media make the voices of young people heard and create dialogue between generations, to contribute to more peaceful societies? This is the subject of the second issue of “Mediation”, Fondation Hirondelle‘s biannual publication. The publication includes an interview with Graeme Simpson, Director of Interpeace USA and lead author of “The Missing Peace” [...]
The Enemy: a virtual helmet that reveals the human faces of fighters
Published: November 15, 2018
Interpeace and the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF), were pleased to present in the context of the Geneva Peace Week, the virtual reality project The Enemy by Karim Ben Khelifa. The Enemy is a collective immersive experience that offers an innovative and human perspective on the realities of war and transports viewers face-to-face with [...]
Challenging the Conventional: Making Post-Violence Reconciliation Succeed
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Reconciliation is a deeply complex process, which has gained increasing prominence on the agenda of post-violence peacebuilding. Yet reconciliation remains a contested and highly context-specific notion. In fact, there is considerable debate among scholars, experts and practitioners on the concept and practice of reconciliation, and how to best assess the achievements or limitations of reconciliation [...]
