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
Job Opportunity
The LPI office in Nairobi, Kenya is now looking for three Programme Advisors. Please read more here.
New issue of the Horn of Africa Bulletin
Horn of Africa Bulletin March-April 2012
- Sudan: The risk of an oil war by Andrews Atta-Asamoah
- Reflections on the crisis in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan by Alemayehu Fenta
- No intervention as the way forward in Somalia by Markus Virgil Hoehne
- The Plurality of laws in Northern Kenya by Bonita Ayuko
+ News and Resources from the region. Click here to download HAB Iatest and past issues.
New Publication
This report is the product of a Participatory Action Plan (PAR) conducted since June 2009 by Action pour la Paix et la Concorde, with the support of LPI.
Conflits fonciers et dynamiques de cohabitation en territoire de Kalehe Sud-Kivu, Est de la RDC
Ce rapport est le fruit d’une Recherche Action Participative menée depuis juin 2009 par Action pour la Paix et la Concorde avec l’appui de LPI. Il aborde le rôle que jouent les mutations administratives dans l’imaginaire et les explications collectives des conflits locaux.
Read more here or click on the photo to download the publication.
New Routes 1/2012 is available! 
New publication from DRC
Au-delà des Groupes Armés: Conflits locaux et connexions sous-regionales L’exemple de Fizi et Uvira. Find it here.
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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
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.
Read an article about the publication 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 about the event at Sustained Dialogue Campus Network here.