• Rationale
• Network of experience

Rationale

Transition processes from violence to politics are fraught with dilemmas, challenges and insecurities that shift and change in uneven patterns over time. We seek to support and enable the constructive processes through providing relevant advice, facilitating peer exchange and capacity building.

In order to foster peaceful social change, it is particularly important to understand the perspectives of armed groups in conflict. Specifically, it is essential to learn about the political environments within which resistance and liberation movements operate. It is equally important to understand their political aspirations.

Network of experience

Our work in this area concentrates on the experiences of these actors as they seek to participate in political systems and acquire political power in post-conflict societies. Our programme is designed to build an expanding network of individuals who can represent such experiences for the purpose of mutual learning.

We believe that the political counterparts of other similar movements – both those that already exist and those that are emerging – along with the peacebuilding community can benefit from these valuable experiences. In turn, this exchange can provide insights for scholarly analysis, practice-oriented engagement and policy advice.

This programme grew out of the first phase of the project Resistance/Liberation Movements and Transitions to Politics: Building a Network of Experience (2006-2009), which was a collaborative effort with our sister organisation, BCR, and in cooperation with a number of other local partner organisations.

For more detail see Engagement with Resistance & Liberation Movements Programme.

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