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Liberia Workshop: "Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Coexistence"

On February 22-23, 2008, Coexistence International (CI) and the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), together with the Transitional Justice Working Group of Liberia, co-sponsored a workshop entitled “Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Coexistence” in Monrovia, Liberia.  This was the second capacity-building workshop of the CI-CDD joint project on Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding in West Africa. The February workshop in Liberia brought together 23 non-state actors, particularly NGOs and other civil society organizations working in the areas of transitional justice, as well as those dedicated to peacebuilding and conflict resolution in West Africa, to learn and share experiences about how transitional justice processes can become more coexistence-sensitive. Read the event summary here.

Conference Report: Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle: Democracy, Human Rights, Gender and Development

A full report on CI's conference Pieces of the Coexistence Puzzle: Democracy, Human Rights, Gender and Development held March 15-16, 2007 is now online. The conference examined the relationships between the distinct but related fields of coexistence, democracy, human rights, gender, and development. While each of these disciplines represents a distinct area of work, with particular frameworks and strategies, a shared commitment to peaceful, just, and sustainable societies drives each discipline's work forward. These disciplines must interact and cooperate, or peacebuilding efforts risk falling short. Therefore, the conference sought to create a platform for practitioners and scholars with a range of regional and thematic expertise to reflect on conflict situations around the world and exchange ideas about the challenges and possibilities presented by a more integrated approach to coexistence and peacebuilding work. More information about the conference can be found here.

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  • Title:Board Member Dekha Ibrahim Abdi receives Right Livelihood Award
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  • Description:Dekha Ibrahim Abdi was honored in late 2007 as one of the recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, presented annually by the Right Livelihood Award Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. The Right Livelihood Award, often known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," was established in 1980 to honour and support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." Ms. Abdi, one of the thirteen members of CI's ...
  • Story:Dekha Ibrahim Abdi was honored in late 2007 as one of the recipients of the Right Livelihood Award, presented annually by the Right Livelihood Award Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. The Right Livelihood Award, often known as the "Alternative Nobel Prize," was established in 1980 to honour and support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." Ms. Abdi, one of the thirteen members of CI's Advisory Board, was honored for her peace and conflict resolution work bridging cultural and religious differences. Ms. Abdi grew up in rural Kenya, in an ethnically mixed society. Her work in Kenya and elsewhere has been for local solutions to peace and development, particularly through coexistence and positive relations between groups. As she has said, "The participation in a peace process is not about the mathematics of numbers and percentages in relation to who is in majority or minority. It is about plurality, diversity, participation and ownership of all affected by the conflict ..." Ms Abdi has pledged to use her approximately $77,000 in prize money from the award to establish a "Peace University" in Wajir, Kenya, the former conflict area in which she was born. For more information, see www.coexistence.net/news/dekharl.html
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