Publications
The following resources are available to buy from the RTC office. For ordering and pricing information please contact us.
Working with Conflict: Skills & Strategies for Action
Simon Fisher, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Richard Smith, Steve Williams, & Sue Williams
Published by Zed books in Association with Responding to Conflict, 2000
This source book is for people working in areas affected by conflict and violence. Easy to use, well laid out, and including helpful visual materials, it provides a range of practical tools - processes, ideas, visual aids and techniques - for tackling conflict. These tools have been developed over a number of years by Responding to Conflict (RTC), in collaboration with practitioners from around the world.
The book embodies and reflects the rich diversity of over 300 practitioners from some 70 countries who, in RTC Working with Conflict courses, have pooled their varied experiences and methods of practice, which have then been adapted to suit a wide range of situations. Examples and cases are drawn from around the world - including Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Africa, Kenya, Northern Ireland and Colombia. The book highlights the options available to individuals and organisations; equips them with a basis on which they can plan what responses are possible; and strengthens their capacity to engage in useful interventions.
For all practitioners who are working in conflict-prone and unstable parts of the world in the fields of development, relief work, human rights, community relations, peace and reconciliation, this book should prove an invaluable support.
Read an extract from the book.
Transforming Conflict: Reflections of practitioners worldwide
ACTION for Conflict Transformation: a global initiative from the grassroots
Published by ACTION, 2003
Violent conflict disrupts lives and livelihoods, destroys societies and economies, and reduces people's access to basic services. Increasing inequality between the rich and the poor, between the privileged few and the many who are lacking basic needs, leads to increasing tensions and often to rising violence at the local levels. Much violent conflict is linked to underlying injustices that are not being addressed. The members of ACTION for Conflict Transformation aim to work together in different regions and continents, as well as globally, to plan, co-ordinate and implement holistic and multi-faceted responses and programmes of Conflict Transformation, providing an alternative way forward in building a culture of hope, peace and justice for future generations.
This book is intended to be a source book for people working on Conflict Transformation and Peace Building in many different countries and situations around the world. It is not a manual of how to do the work so much as a collection of real-life examples and experiences from which the reader can gain insights about what might be possible or appropriate in one's own context.
The Wajir Story: A film about Conflict Transformation in Kenya (DVD)
This is the story of a peace-building initiative which startedwith a group of women in Wajir, north-eastern Kenya, spread quickly to all sections of the community, and reached up into government. It is told through the voices of those who took part in it, who mobilised their community to halt escalating violence and who are still struggling to achieve peace and stability - for this is not a finished event.
The film was commissioned by Responding to Conflict and the Coalition for Peace in Africa, in partnership with the Wajir Peace and Development Committee. It was filmed by Robert Maletta, produced by Trojan Horse Productions, with funding from Comic Relief.