{"id":236490,"date":"2022-12-08T15:55:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/?p=236490"},"modified":"2023-10-25T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T07:52:39","slug":"special-report-peacebuilding-in-south-asia-and-the-western-balkans-insights-from-an-unusual-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/special-report-peacebuilding-in-south-asia-and-the-western-balkans-insights-from-an-unusual-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: Peacebuilding in South Asia and the Western Balkans &#8211; Insights from an Unusual Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you already know, in March 2022 we had an extraordinary encounter with our colleagues from South Asia. The encounter was within the project \u201cSouth Asia \u2013 Western Balkan Peacebuilding Exchange\u201d that was largely supported by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de\/en\/bread-for-the-world\/\"> Brot f\u00fcr die Welt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After publishing<a href=\"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/exchange-with-friends-from-asia\/\"> a short report<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/documentation-south-asia-western-balkan-peacebuilding-exchange\/\"> an extensive documentation<\/a> about this encounter, we are glad to announce a special report about this project \u201e<a href=\"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/publikacije\/pdf\/Asia_meets_Balkans-onlineV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peacebuilding in South Asia and the Western Balkans &#8211; Insights from an Unusual Encounter<\/a>\u201c, edited by Martina Fischer with strong support of Edda Kirleis and CNA team. This report is compiled mainly for international readers who did not participate in the exchange but may be interested in learning more about the advantages, opportunities and methods of a multi-regional peacebuilding encounter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/publikacije\/pdf\/Asia_meets_Balkans-onlineV.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/Asia-Balkan-cover-1416x2002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a>In the Introduction, Martina Fischer stated: \u201ePeople who engage for peacebuilding and human rights around the globe face a number of shared challenges: many of them are working in very complex social and political settings in which peacebuilding rarely proceeds in linear processes but in loops, with deviations and setbacks. As a result, they sometimes feel that they are moving two steps forward and then three steps back. Peacebuilders often see themselves confronted with a Sisyphean challenge and therefore need an extremely high level of self-motivation and resilience to resist frustration. In many places, activists have to cope with harsh opposition or even repression and are constantly weighing up the risks to their own and their families\u2019 lives. Most of them are familiar with the feeling of being overloaded and worry that they are running out of time. So why should peace activists from India, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Croatia, who come from very different cultural, socio-political and geographical settings, travel around and come together somewhere in the middle of Bosnia-Herzegovina?&#8230;\u201c If you want to read more, please follow one of the links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/publikacije\/pdf\/Asia_meets_Balkans-onlineV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download from nenasilje.org site<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de\/blog\/peacebuilding-in-south-asia-the-western-balkans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download from brot-fuer-die-welt.de site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special report about an extraordinary encounter with our colleagues from South Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,81,78,130,44],"tags":[311,2648,923,2192,2031,1096,304,1884],"class_list":["post-236490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-downloads-en","category-news","category-other-publications","category-publications","tag-activism","tag-brot-fur-die-welt-en","tag-exchange-of-experiences","tag-human-rights-en","tag-international-exchange-en","tag-martina-fischer-en","tag-peacebuilding","tag-support-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240629,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236490\/revisions\/240629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nenasilje.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}