Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen is the Executive Director of peacebuilding NGO, Conciliation Resources, and an Associate of the Imperial War Museum's Institute for the Public Understanding of War and Conflict. In 2007 he was awarded an OBE by the British Government for services to conflict prevention and conflict resolution in the Caucasus.

Reimagining victory by winning the peace

If we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation, inclusion and equality.

By Jonathan Cohen

/ 29 Jun 2020

Reimagining victory by winning the peace

Breaking the vicious circle - reconciliation in OSCE areas

Work must be done to overcome divides even many decades after official agreements to end violence have been signed. But the process is neither simple nor direct, with social media as easily a tool for vitriol as for furthering understanding of others. What, and who, can help?

By Jonathan Cohen

/ 21 Dec 2012

The myths that surround the military's power to do good

"We need to construct ourselves as cooperative entities, so that the way we understand belonging and identity does not have to be predicated on hostility towards others. Diana Francis talks to Vanessa Alexander and Jonathan Cohen about her latest book From Pacification to Peacebuilding.

By Vanessa Alexander and Jonathan Cohen

/ 19 Mar 2010