Welcome to The Life & Peace
The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international and ecumenical centre that supports and promotes nonviolent approaches to conflict transformation through a combination of research and action that entails the strengthening of existing local capacities and enhancing the preconditions for building peace.
The Life & Peace Institute envisions a world where peace, justice and non-violent relations prevail through people’s active work and commitment. We have been active towards achieving this goal since 1985.
Our work
The Life & Peace Institute works by supporting local civil society organisations in Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
LPI regards the regional aspect as key both in the understanding and the solution to the conflicts in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes regions, and its work is therefore built on a thorough understanding of this regional dimension. Read more about our programmes.
News
Vacancies
Programme Director - LPI is advertising the position as Director for the Programme Unit in the Uppsala head office. It is a full time temporary position for a period of one year from April 2012. Read the advertisement here
Don't miss the first issue of the year 2012!
Horn of Africa Bulletin January - February 2012
- Civil militarization in Somalia – causes, factors and issues by Dr. Ibrahim Farah and Ms. Sagal Mohamed
- Armed pastoralists in North Rift Valley – a shift towardsreintegration, demobilization and disarmament by Lazarus Kubasu Nolasco and Martin Munene
- Information Communication Technology (ICT)in combat of Small Arms and Light Weapons by Michael .O. Ouko and John Ahere
LPI and Kroc Institute new publication on Somalia
Creating space for fresh approaches to peacebuilding
Policy options discussed by decision makers inside and outside
Somalia are based primarily on global and regional security
potential for nonviolent conflict transformation that exist in theconcerns.
They tend to overlook the local complexities and the
context. In particular, the black listing of al-Shaabab prevents one
of the main stakeholders to participate in the mainstream political
process and discourages interest in dialogue from all sides.
There is a scarcity of alternative perspectives among policy makers that
could encourage the design of an inclusive peace process in Somalia.
These challenges are presented and analysed in a series of
articles that has come out of collaboration between the Life & Peace
Institute and the Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies at
the University of Notre Dame, USA.
New publication from DRC - Au-delà des Groupes Armés: Conflits locaux et connexions sous-regionales L’exemple de Fizi et Uvira find it here
International student summit in Ethiopia
The Addis Ababa University Peace Club and the Life & Peace Institute organised a 3-day international Sustained Dialogue Summit in December 2011. Hundreds of students came together to brainstorm ways of sustaining the clulb's student-run activities.
Summit organizer, LPI Ethiopia programme manager Hannah Tsadik said "the initiative is proof that something very small can grow and bloom and reach people all over the world... that things can change for the better".
Professor Tarekegn Adebo, working for LPI and the Addis Ababa University, noted the peer-reviewed academic research being conducted on the Sustaine Dialogue initiative: "This exercise is going to contribute to something serious on the theoretical level on that part of peacebuilding called impact assessment". Read more
Read more about the event at Sustained Dialogue Campus Network on
http://www.sdcampusnetwork.org/ht/display/ArticleDetails/i/4499
New Routes, issue number 4 is availableThe latest New Routes issue discusses 'African soil for sale: Large-scale land acquisitions'. In this issue you can read articles, such as ‘Land disputes in the wake of civil war’, ‘Local efforts to solve land and identity conflicts’, ‘Solving the energy crisis or increasing food shortage?’ by scholars, researchers and consultants around the world.
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