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Introduction to Peacebuilding

This introductory guide to peacebuilding for Islamic Relief staff introduces basic concepts as well as Islamic approaches to peacebuilding. It explains Islamic Relief’s holistic approach to inclusive and sustainable community-based peacebuilding. The guide offers many practical examples from Islamic Relief’s own projects around the world and directs the reader to external blogs, video clips and many other excellent resources for peacebuilding practitioners which complement Islamic Relief’s approach.

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Working in Conflict: A Faith Based Toolkit for Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief works with communities to build resilience and reduce risk in future conflicts. Our values are rooted in Islam, and our identity as an Islamic-based organisation can help us connect with and gain the trust of vulnerable Muslim communities. This toolkit draws on current knowledge and best practice across the field, but approaches each area of work from an Islamic perspective. It also suggests how the reader might conduct programming in conflict-affected contexts on that basis.

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SIDA Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Programme Case Study

This document highlights Islamic Relief’s Triple Nexus approach and how it helps communities achieve sustainable, inclusive peace as a basis for human security with focus particularly on excluded groups in society such as youth and women,. The document also includes case studies on how Islamic Relief is investing in the peacebuilding capacity of youth in Pakistan, Kenya, Indonesia and the Philippines as part of a holistic package of support to fragile communities. While the contexts in each country are different, there are some commonalities in Islamic Relief’s approach.

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SIDA Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Programme Case Study

In insecure places, people need reliable information from trusted sources about security issues, disaster risks, upcoming elections and other topics that might cause a rise in local tensions. Many people get this information from listening to the radio. Islamic Relief has been supporting the use of local radio to address conflict issues and promote peace in Kenya. This case study explores how radio for peace works in practice.

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From Violence to Dialogue: Youth-led dispute resolution in Pakistan

Islamic Relief supports community organisations and youth groups in fragile areas of Pakistan to manage community social cohesion, reconstruction of damaged water infrastructure and livelihoods. After receiving dispute resolution training from Islamic Relief, one youth group successfully negotiated a resolution to a decades-long, violent inter-tribal dispute about access to land and a coal mine. This case study explains how the negotiation process worked in practice, illustrating how transformative Islamic Relief’s support for locally-managed social cohesion can be.

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Combining traditional, formal and NGO peacebuilding to resolve violent rido in Maguindanao

Inter-clan conflict (rido) is the most worrying form of violence for local communities in Maguindanao (southern Philippines), surpassing conflict between armed separatist groups and the Philippines state and threatening peace and stability in the region. Traditional practices of conflict resolution are often used to address rido disputes, culminating in traditional peace ceremonies. Islamic Relief’s Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Programme in the Philippines has supported community-led peacebuilding by women and youth between 2018 and 2021, which interacts with traditional rido resolution processes. This case study examines a recent rido in Maguindanao, shedding light on a clan conflict over political-economic power and its eventual resolution involving youth peace groups supported by Islamic Relief.

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A review of the triple nexus approach in discourse and practice

The Triple Nexus has been presented as a way for the international aid and development sector to more effectively tackle the inter-connected risks and needs of vulnerable people. It builds on existing work to link humanitarian and development programming by bringing in the peace component, recognising that much of our work is delivered in places with underlying tensions or outright conflict. Islamic Relief has piloted a triple nexus approach to programming. This report reviews the learning from that programme and from continuing debate in the sector.

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Adapting to Instability

Aiming to add to the conflict-climate nexus discourse, this report focuses on examining how conflict and climate change influence land and water disputes between farmers and pastoralists in north and central Mali. Developed from data collected during the context and protection analysis as well as data from ACLED, the report unpacks the root causes of intercommunal violence between farmers and pastoralist. The report contains calls, among others, to the international community to promote conflict sensitive adaptation in fragile-conflict-prone contexts and to support locally led adaptation initiatives to promote ownership and regional partnerships.

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Stories from Afar

Islamic Relief, working alongside communities and government, has transformed the lives of thousands of people affected by the climate change crisis in Ethiopia’s Afar region. This paper illustrates how new approaches, transformational change and innovative technologies have together turned fear and loss into strength and hope

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