Whats Happening 04.05.11

The Peacebuilders: Making Conflict Resolution Permanent

...Peacebuilding is a new approach to ending war, and it's becoming a global buzzword. It's different from peacemaking, which brings politicians around a table to hammer out a peace deal. And it's different from peacekeeping, which sends foreign soldiers to monitor peace agreements, separate warring parties, and protect civilians in conflict zones.

"Everybody understands peacemaking," says Judy Cheng-Hopkins, the UN assistant secretary-general for peacebuilding. "And in a way we also understanding peacekeeping.... Peacebuilding goes beyond either [of these]."

Peacebuilding is about what comes next – the slow and thankless slog of building a country back up.

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Pod Casts of 82 sessions of the National Mediation Conference Austr...

Greg Rooney- Speakers include Justice Albie Sachs on the Process Architecture of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Constitutional Court of South Africa as well as practising mediators, theorists and academics from Australia and other parts of the world with professional and practice backgrounds in Law, Social Science, Commercial and Corporate, Employment and Industrial Relations, Dispute Systems Design, the Judiciary, Courts and Tribunals, Indigenous Communities and Policy and Human Rights, Peacemaking and International affairs.

These pod casts provide a rich resource for mediators and policymakers and provide an insight into the current development of mediation within Australia.

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