Are refugee numbers the highest ever? What were the origins of US Non-governmental support for refugees? What are the latest statistics from the Rohingya refugee crisis? How do Mexicans view the “migrant caravan” traveling to the United States border? ...
August 10, 2018. Earlier today Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (“MDC”), formally contested the election results of the July 30th presidential and parliamentary elections. Official election results were announced this past Thursday,...
December, 2017. A coalition of civil society groups, representing Zimbabwe’s leading religious bodies, labor and human rights organizations, women, youth and disabilities movements, Media associations, students and more have come together to advance democratic...
On the one year anniversary of the “Unite the Right” rally and protests in Charlottesville, Virginia held in 2017, we revisit the reflections of our board colleagues, Derek Brown and Jeff Seul. Derek offered his reflections on the events in the community that he...
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu wrote an open letter to his fellow Nobel Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi in response to the crisis in Myanmar affecting hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, many of whom have fled catastrophic violence in Burma’s Rakhine state to take...
This past week, Burma’s Union Peace Conference reconvened for the third time in 18 months. Known as the “21rst Century Panglong” (a reference to the 1947 meeting between Burma’s interim head of government, Aung San – father of today’s State...
“Managing Complexity, Breaking Deadlocks and Building Consensus ” A Background Paper for the Third Conference on National Dialogues, April 5-6, 2017 Perhaps the most outstanding characteristic of National Dialogues, as seen from a planning and facilitation...
Our partners at the Charity and Security Network continue to monitor and work to reverse the closing regulatory space for humanitarian relief and peacebuilding organizations. They’ve just highlighted three new reports studying the impact on civil society of new...
Two-thirds of U.S.-based nonprofit organizations working abroad are facing problems accessing financial services, according to a comprehensive report released by the Charity and Security Network. (The Peace Appeal Foundation is a member of the network, and serves on...
Washington DC, Two-thirds of U.S.-based nonprofit organizations working abroad are facing problems accessing financial services, according to a comprehensive report released today by the Charity and Security Network. The study illustrates a growing challenge to...
