Additional Activities
- Sudan: analysis, strategy development & monitoring
- Peru: principles, elements & preconditions of intercultural dialogue
- Organisational learning
- Resources
Sudan: analysis, strategy development & monitoring
BPS has been engaged in the Sudan since 2005. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement of January 2005, between the National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan’s People Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), ended decades of violent civil war in Sudan.
In order to understand better and support this process, we conducted a study on options for the systemic conflict transformation approach in 2005 and in 2006, involving an author from the North and one from the South.
In 2007, we were involved in an assessment of the current situation in Southern Sudan (on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ) and recommended options for increasing the link between German activities in the governance and peacebuilding sectors. In this context, a further background study was produced on traditional approaches for conflict resolution.
Between 2008 and 2009, we focused our attention on the situation in the “Three Transitional Areas” where violent confrontations were beginning to escalate. As part of BPS’ Peace Envoy Programme, we explored the possibilities of providing support for conflict transformation activities. Due to Sudanese restrictions, we decided – for the time being – not to engage further.
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TopPeru: principles, elements & preconditions of intercultural dialogue
BPS was part of a mission to advise the Human Rights Ombudsperson on dialogue processes and mechanisms to prevent the escalation of intercultural conflicts similar to Bagua in June 2009. Police and an indigenous movement had clashed violently over the exploitation of natural resources in the Amazonian Basin, leaving over 30 dead.
In Peru’s multi-ethnic setting, mechanisms for interculturally sensitive consultation and dialogue are required to deal constructively with social conflict in the future. The mission has prepared a report for the consideration of the Ombudsperson.
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TopOrganisational learning
Our own experience in organisational learning has provoked both an article on the issue, as well as a review of our risk management in Sri Lanka.
Apart from our own practice, we currently support peer organisations in their internal organisational development as well as strategy development from a systemic perspective.
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TopResources
| Title | Region/Topic | Authors/Editors | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traditional Mechanisms of Conflict Resolution in Southern Sudan | Sudan | Wasara, Samson S. | 2007 |
| Time to Learn: Expanding Organisational Capacities in Conflict Settings - A Response | Reflective Practice | Hopp, Ulrike; Unger, Barbara | 2009 |
| Systemic Conflict Transformation and Inclusive Governance in Southern Sudan | Sudan | Unger, Barbara; Wils, Oliver | 2007 |
| Sudan - Conflict Analysis and Options for Systemic Conflict Transformation. A Northern and a Southern View | Sudan | Berghof Peace Support | 2006 |
| Reflecting on Risk and Security Management: A learning case based on the experience of the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies in Sri Lanka | Reflective Practice | Maass, Gregor | 2008 |
| A Bitter Harvest and Grounds for Reform: The Nuba Mountains, Conflicted Land and Transitional Sudan | Sudan | Large, Judith; El-Basha, El-Lazim Suleiman | 2010 |