Conciliation Resources (www.c-r.org) is an independent organisation working with people in conflict to prevent violence and build peace. We're there as long as we're needed to provide advice, support and practical resources. In addition, we take what we learn to government decision-makers and others working to end conflict, to improve policies and practice worldwide.

We aim to:

Promote understanding of peaceful ways to resolve conflicts

Create opportunities for dialogue between divided communities

Strengthen peacebuilding policies and practice

Support people to build peace

War shatters lives. It creates poverty and wastes billions every year. The people living in the midst of the violence often have the greatest insight into its causes. Yet they are often excluded from efforts to find a resolution.

Conciliation Resources supports people at the heart of conflicts who are striving to find solutions. We work with them to deepen our collective understanding of the conflict, bring together divided communities, and create opportunities for people to resolve their differences peacefully.

We undertook our first programme work in 1995 and work mainly in Colombia, East and Central Africa, Fiji, Jammu and Kashmir, the Philippines, South Caucasus, and West Africa.