Content tagged with: Peacebuilding

Where are women's voices in peace talks?

Podcast

The swissinfo podcast asks the question that drives us in our work: "Where are the voices of women in peace talks?" Our director Deborah Schibler and Larissa Mina Lee, Network and Advocacy, took part in the discussion.

Colombia's peace hangs on a thread

Colombia

International support for peace in Colombia must not waver, warns human rights lawyer Luz Marina Monzón Cifuentes in an interview with swissinfo. What is needed now is a peace policy that focuses on the small communities caught up in the violence. In April, we invited Luz Marina to an event in Bern.

“It is important for us to understand our mothers' suffering”

Dealing with the past in Nepal

How do people of different generations in Nepal experience the consequences of the ten-year armed conflict that ended in 2006 with a peace agreement? Two videos show young adults of the second generation and women of the first generation, who were directly affected by the conflict, exchange their experiences at intergenerational meetings. Most of them have lost family members. At the meetings, they speak about their suffering and feelings of revenge and begin a healing process that ultimately gives them the strength to demand their right to recognition collectively.