Simon Fisher
Simon Fisher is an independent facilitator, trainer and writer. He has first-hand experience of conflict, development and change in many countries, working with local and international agencies, governments and at the UN. In 1991 he founded and became the first director of Responding to Conflict, since when his priority has been to help develop and sustain active networks of committed peace workers at global and regional levels, as well as to support specific initiative for peace and justice. Among his books are: Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action, RTC / Zed Books 2000 (co-author), and Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace, Quaker Books 2004.
Author Files
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An Agenda for transformative peacebuilding?
This file suggest some options for what needs to be done in the impending multiple crises going forward.
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Applied Conflict Transformation Studies
Building a pool of reflexive practitioners.
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Centre for Nonviolent Action, Balkans
Principles and funding.
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Going where governments would not go.
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Connect Four – an initiative to develop a common policy platform in UK
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Search for Common Ground’s programme on ‘Women and Governance’ in Burundi
What makes a project genuinely transformative?
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What has the peacebuilding field achieved?
This file is a brief, inevitably impressionistic overview of the main achievements of the field. It does not try to do full justice to what has been achieved in the relatively short space of time since late 1980s. It does, however, name some of the key elements which now need to be built on purposefully, with wisdom and courage.
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Exploring the rationale behind critical points of view raised in peacebuilding and other movements for change.