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Peace Rules OK! Part of the Christian Aid 'Global Gang' site looking at conflict resolution.
Peace in their time? Christian Aid's Richard Burge reports on a trip that allowed British MPs to hear first hand accounts of the reconciliation attempts following the violent conflict in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Children in northern Uganda targeted by the Lord's Resistance Army /11.11.03
Pius O has just walked three kilometres with his two younger brothers in order to go to bed. He lives with his parents in Ariaga but every night joins the streams of children known as 'night commuters' walking to the town of Gulu in northern Uganda to sleep in safety.
Guns into Art (pdf file - open with Acrobat Reader)
There are around seven million guns buried in caches all over Mozambique. They are a legacy of the country’s bitter 16-year civil war (1977-1992). Christian Aid partner the Christian Council of Mozambique (CCM) is working to help people exchange these tools of war for tools that will enable people to earn a living. The charity then hands the guns over to local artists who turn these weapons of war into icons of peace.
We can all be heroes...
This resource focuses on 'heroes' and 'community' and provides information, teaching activities and an assembly for use with 7- to 11-year-olds.
Introduction: We can all be heroes… focuses on the story of Ram Chamreun who makes landmines safe in Cambodia. To his community he is a hero, but he sees himself as an ordinary person who wants to help make his community a safe place to live. Ram Chamreun works with the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), which is supported by Church World Service, one of Christian Aid's partner organisations.
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