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Diana Francis has worked as a consultant on conflict transformation with local activists in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She is a former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support. At home in the UK she writes and campaigns about issues of war and peace. Her first two books, People, Peace and Power (2002) and Rethinking War and Peace (2004) were published by Pluto Press who, in March 2010, will bring out her latest: From Pacification to Peacebuilding: A Call to Global Transformation.
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Published in: 50.50A story of moral abandonNonviolent power is quickly forgotten when the tried, tested and endlessly catastrophic option of violence...
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Published in: 50.50Prophecy is suggesting the possible
"Our values of interdependence are no longer crazy talk. Our language has been mainstreamed." Diana Francis reports...
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Published in: 50.50Religion, peace and gender
As the number of interfaith and faith-based peace initiatives grows, women peace activists from twenty one countries...
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Published in: 50.50How can we build an effective global peace movement?
If we are to present a credible challenge to the system of interlocking interests that combine to entrench...
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Published in: 50.50Building a global peace movement
How can we build a strong and effective global peace movement?’ Cynthia Cockburn, Howard Clark and Dave Webb reply...
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Published in: 50.50A platform for humanity - The UK's Bath experiment
Positive peace is more than the absence of war. Groups campaigning to advance the causes that are vital to building...