Conciliation Resources’ Annual Report for 2004

PeaceJournalism.com, Nepal
June 30 2005

We are pleased to inform you that Conciliation Resources’ Annual
Report for 2004 is now available on our website as a downloadable
PDF file at:

Last year marked CR’s first decade and another year of hard work and
significant achievements. We expanded the scope and impact of our
Caucasus programme’s dialogue and civil society capacity-building work
in Georgia and Abkhazia, and extended our media and public awareness
work into Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh. We also moved
from having projects and partnerships in Uganda to establishing a
coherent programme.

Accord had another productive year, with initiatives and new
publications on Colombia and Angola. Our West Africa programme carried
out groundbreaking work with partners engaged in community-based
mediation, as well as peacebuilding work with media, youth and women’s
groups in Sierra Leone and the sub-region.

Drawing upon this work with local partners in conflict zones, CR is
taking steps into the arena of influencing international policies
that affect the resolution and transformation of conflicts. Our
latest Accord publication, Choosing to engage: armed groups and peace
processes, released this month, is a good example and builds upon our
earlier conclusions on the global need for better public participation
in peacemaking. It makes the case for a policy shift towards more
committed dialogue with armed groups and other non-state actors to
end violent conflicts and strengthen the rule of law.

We look forward to future contact and cooperation with you, and wish
you all the best in your work.

Yours sincerely

Andy Carl Director

Conciliation Resources 173 Upper Street, Islington London N1 1RG
UK Telephone: +44 (0) 20 73597728 Fax: +44 (0) 20 73594081 Email:
communications@c-r.org Website: