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ACBAR Strategic Planning Process Pakistan. A CDR Program Manager facilitated a three-day emergency strategic planning process for the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) that included the directors of international and Afghan Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) and ACBAR staff members, to redefine the mission of the organization and determine future direction. The facilitation resulted in the identification of a mission statement, core activities, and a governance model for ACBAR as an agency. Mercy Corps International and the Office of Transitional Initiatives of the U.S. Agency for International Development (Ambon, Indonesia) - Initiative to Promote Reunification of the Christian and Muslim Communities in Ambon. CDR Associates, in collaboration with the Conflict Management Group, conducted a two-week strategy design consultation with Mercy Corps International and six Ambonese non-governmental organizations working to promote peace and development between the seriously divided Muslim and Christian communities on this Indonesian island. Christians and Muslims have engaged in fighting over the last several years that had resulted in the loss of several thousand lives, major property destruction and the partition of the island. CDR consulted on strategies with several mediation teams working at various levels of the conflict, and worked with non-governmental organizations to help structure their activities to promote reintegration and reconciliation.
Indonesian Inter-Group Conflict Management Project (Jakarta, Indonesia) - Intergroup Conflict Management and Resolution. As part of the larger capacity-building effort in Indonesia, CDR staff helped coordinate and lead a team of Indonesian and U.S. trainers that conducted a large seven-day workshop on Intergroup Conflict Management and Resolution to build Indonesian capacities to resolve ethnic and religiously based conflicts. Participants in the training workshop included 45 people from all over Indonesia, with an emphasis on areas experiencing conflict, including Papua/Irian Jaya, Ambon/Maluku, West Kalimantan, Riau, Aceh, and West Timor.
Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law (Jakarta and Semarang, Indonesia) - Conflict Management Workshops. CDR helped deliver two workshops in Indonesia, working with Indonesian colleagues. The first was a workshop on environmental mediation and conflict resolution organized by the Indonesian Centre for Environmental Law in cooperation with the Diponegoro University in Semarang. The second workshop was organized by ICEL in cooperation with the law school at the University of Indonesia. That workshop included law faculty from universities throughout Indonesia and focused on development and delivery of curricula regarding Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Indonesian Rectors Forum (Bandung, Indonesia) Indonesian National Conflict Survey. CDR assisted the Indonesian Rectors Forum (a network of universities in Indonesia) to completing a USAID funded project which surveyed major ethnic, religious, political and economic conflicts throughout Indonesia, analyzed information gathered by local and national researchers regarding the conflicts, and developed a final report, which included conclusions and recommendations for how to address identified conflicts.
Multi-Cultural Cooperation and Dispute Resolution Project CDR Associates and the Center for Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgaria has always been a multicultural nation. At the crossroads between Europe and Asia and between Christianity and Islam, Bulgaria has, over history, had to contend with accommodating multiple diverse groups. Today, the nation has a population that is approximately 85% Bulgarian, 9% Turk, 6% Gypsy (commonly referred to as Tzinganes or Romanes), and smaller numbers of Macedonians, Pomaks, Gagauz, Armenians, Greeks, Jews, Russians, Tatars and others. During the Communist period, ethnic conflicts were suppressed and there was a massive initiative to force assimilation of all ethnic groups. This repression led to protests by the Turkish minority and an extremely high rate of immigration. With the toppling of the Communist government, most of the previous rights formerly held by Turks were restored.
CDR's project, conducted in cooperation with the Bulgarian Center on Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and funded by Pew Charitable Trusts, was designed to develop capacities to manage diversity and conflicts that result from interactions between ethnic populations. The project involved building a positive consciousness toward and acceptance of diversity; preparing citizens with skills to effectively manage differences within institutions and communities; building institutions, both within governments and NGOs that can assist parties to better manage and resolve social problems with ethnic components; and creating a legal structure that institutionalizes tolerance. Reflecting on Peace Practice. Reflecting on Peace Practice is a collaborative effort among 40 conflict resolution, development and humanitarian assistance NGOs to learn from peacebuilding work in areas of high tension and war. The project involves analysis of regional, ethnic and communal conflicts; development of case studies; identification of lessons learned; and presentation of training workshops on effective approaches and strategies for conflict resolution and reconciliation for NGOs involved peacebuilding and development work around the world. A CDR Partner has been involved in consultation, research, training program design and seminar presentations in Australia, Indonesia and South Africa.
