Karuna Center for Peacebuilding

Karuna Center for Peacebuilding promotes a culture of peace through its training programs in conflict prevention, transformation and management, with a special emphasis on intercommunal dialogue and reconciliation.  The Karuna Center works in partnership with non-governmental organizations, community groups, and educational and religious institutions to design and deliver training and workshops in conflict transformation that builds trust and communication between conflicting groups. Mentored participants then become peacebuilding agents in their own communities.

The objective of Inclusive Security’s partnership with Karuna Center for Peacebuilding is to mainstream our distinct training methodology that emphasizes women as agents of peace in Karuna’s work.  Inclusive Security and Karuna participate substantially in each others’ programming, from co-creating currcicula that fuse the two organizations’ training designs to collaborating on joint workshops around women, peace, and security in countries of mutual interest.  Building on one anothers’ expertise advances the entrée and objectives of both Karuna and Inclusive Security.

Highlights

Securing Afghanistan: Women’s Vital Contributions
In September 2007 the Initiative for Inclusive Security and the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding jointly led a six-day multi-sector training seminar in Kabul, titled Securing Afghanistan: Women’s Vital Contributions. The training culminated in a policy forum held at the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and brought together more than 60 Afghan leaders and 17 international policy makers. Click here to read the full report.