About the Network
Information on the setting up of the RRN and the network’s main aims and objectives here
Discussion Forums
The RRN provided a forum where critical issues could be presented and discussed among the global community of reconciliation practitioners, analysts and policy-makers. All interested parties were welcome to participate in the forum’s moderated online discussions. The RRN discussion forums covered a range of issues, drawing on a wide variety of regional and thematic perspectives. The forum is now offline and the highlighted topics below have been archived.
Highlighted Topics:
South Asian Approaches To Reconciliation
Simultaneously one of the world's most populous, diverse and conflict-affected regions, South Asia presents tremendous challenges - as well as offering tremendous cultural resources - in the field of reconciliation. Sakuntala Kadirgamar-Rajasingham, former Head of International IDEA's South Asia Programme, outlines the critical reconciliation-related issues confronting the region today.
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On Good Terms: Clarifying Reconciliation
'Reconciliation' has become part of the standard lexicon of strategies for assisting societies emerging from violent conflict. But for all its obvious popularity the term means very different things to different people. In this introduction to a new RRN online discussion, David Bloomfield tries to bring some clarity to our understanding of what reconciliation does - and does not - mean for countries attempting to 'deal with the past'.
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North Uganda: Peace and/or Justice for the People?
Uganda’s Sudanese-mediated peace process currently remains stymied by controversy surrounding the indictments issued by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) against the leadership of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). James Latigo analyses the debate and draws out the broader questions it raises about the place – and priority - of peace and justice in the search for sustainable peace in Africa and beyond.
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