How Can Staff and Partners of CARE Kosovo Enhance Capacity in Strategic Peacebuilding and Conflict Sensitivity?
Vasiliki Neofotistos, PhD
September 2008
In this report, are presented four case studies that draw on the extensive experience of CARE Kosovo in peace-building programming and focus on the following four thematic areas.
1. Peace-building through economic cooperation
2. Human rights and peace education activities with children and youth from the various ethnic communities in Kosovo/a
3. Democratic governance through peace-building initiatives
4. Impact of poverty reduction and/or empowerment of the RAE communities on peace-building.
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Towards a Conflict Sensitive CARE Kosovo
International Alert and CARE International Kosovo
January 2008
This guide is designed to assist development and peace building workers in Kosovo. It is important to see this facilitation report not as rules to be followed, but a collection of ideas and guides to be adapted and molded to fit your purpose. If the ideas or exercises do not work for you or your audience, think of how they may changed or replaced.
Training and learning in conflict-affected and conflict-prone locations can be difficult for trainers and emotionally daunting for participants. It is necessary to be aware that participants will have gone though tough and distressing times. Some may have lost family members and friends and may have been displaced and traumatized. Some of the exercises in this manual may expose old wounds and stir up uncomfortable memories and feelings. It is vital to proceed with flexibility, but also with caution and sensitivity.
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What Difference has Peacebuilding Made?
CDA and CARE International Kosovo
July 2006
This study was undertaken in response to a request by CARE International, with other NGOs, to
understand what went right in those communities, and what lessons to be learned from
those experiences to improve the effectiveness of peacebuilding programming in
preventing violence in the future. The study was funded by the UK F oreign and
Commonwealth Office, CARE UK, CARE Austria, and CDA-CLP's Reflecting on Peace
Practice project.
The purpose of the study was to understand whether and how peacebuilding
programming contributed to communities lack of participation in violence, especially
that which occurred in March, 2004.1 The questions we have focused on are:
· What have been factors that have enabled communities to avoid, resist or not to
participate in inter-ethnic violence?
· To what extent has peacebuilding work contributed to these factors?
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LED Strategy in the Municipality of Novo Brdo/Novo Bėrdė
CARE INERNATIONAL KOSOVO, ICCED PRISHTINA
March 2008
The Strategy was designed as a part of the project Regional Economic Growth Stability Project which is being implemented in four municipalities of Kosovo and five municipalities of Macedonia in order to increase the development of economy and tourism. The project is being implemented in cooperation with CARE International Kosovo, ICCED Prishtina-Kosovo and Epi Center of Macedonia. This project was funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY 2008-2015
CARE INERNATIONAL KOSOVO, ICCED PRISHTINA
March 2008
The strategy for the development of rural tourism in the municipality of Novo Brdo/Novo Bėrdė is a
document that emphasizes municipal resources and assets which results with concrete projects
for implementation. Preparation of the strategy for the development of the rural tourism aims to
serve as an instrument for planning of the processes of comprehensive local development,
planning of the municipal budget, mobilizing financial resources, as well as coordinating aid at
both levels, local and central.
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