Enabling local insiders to address their own conflicts, and making sure there is a systematic insider effort to match outsider peace negotiations is a highly cost-effective way to bring about lasting peace, argues Dr Scilla Elworthy, founder of Peace Direct and the Oxford Research Group.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues was officially registered on 21 December 2006. Co-chairs - Simon Hughes MP (Lib Dem), John McDonnell MP (Lab), Gary Streeter MP (Con); Secretary - Jeffrey Donaldson MP (DUP); Treasurer - Andy Slaughter MP (Lab)
The Secretariat to the APPG on Conflict Issues is supplied by Engi.