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: 50.50UK election outcome: lessons for peacebuildingInclusive democracy is a key constituent of positive peace. Does the surprise coalition government in Britain have...
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Published in: 50.50The strongest power of all
If violence is out, what power can nonviolence offer? Courage, numbers and solidarity are vital to confront...
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Published in: 50.50Eat or be eaten: courting disaster
Two very different ways of viewing the world result in radically different ways of approaching conflict. When we...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformation
As Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50War: justifiable or simply catastrophic?The global phenomenon of war distorts our ongoing attempts to build peace in conflict after conflict and in many...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond stalemate: replacing the vicious with the virtuous circleWhat is conflict transformation? How do you begin to approach the mutual hurt of conflict embedded in systems and...