Peace Library News

A weblog from the Peace Library
at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town

UN unveils new peacemaking website

Monday, November 20, 2006
The Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Ibrahim Gambari, said the new website, UN Peacemaker, is a serious effort to synthesize existing UN knowledge about peace agreements and their negotiation, and to make that know-how available to all of those working in peacemaking today. That includes U.N. envoys as well as mediators from other organizations. "Your registration is required to maintain the quality and integrity of this site" More...

Internet Rights Charter

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Released by the Association of Progressive Communications (APC).
"APC believes that the ability to share information and communicate freely using the internet is vital to the realisation of human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1976), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976) and the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW, 1980)." More...

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Make a positive change with networklearning

Thursday, November 09, 2006
All posted recently to Networklearning.org The purpose of this site is to make resources available, free, to NGOs working in the development or humanitarian fields.

Course book: Shedding Abuse - a course for Men who use Domestic Violence

'Changing damaging behaviour' on the Behaviour Change page.

NGO Self-assesment through a SWOT exercise, in a new 'quickstart' format

On the Library home page: manuals can be found by subject area. Relevant manuals can also be located under each 'NGO Fields' and 'NGO Skills' page.

Update to the Primary Health Care page with new information.

Recently catalogued at the Peace Library

We are currently unable to update to our online catalogue, so please link to a pdf of recently catalogued items

Confronting war

Did you know that Confronting war: critical lessons for peace practitioners by Mary Anderson (2003) is also available online?