The elephant population in Aceh Province in Indonesia keeps decreasing due to frequent conflict with humans. At the same time, Aceh is the best example in Asia of the transformation of violent human conflict into an enduring peace. This project is aimed at highlighting human-elephant conflict as a possible solution to mitigate the conflict.
The Activating Village Courts in Bangladesh Phase II Project aims to make village courts functional. Village courts are a local justice delivery mechanism that has the potential to strengthen local authorities and institutions and make them more responsive to local needs. They function as a bridge between informal and formal justice institutions and provide a … Continued
The Indian Road Safety Campaign (IRSC) works to reduce the number of road accidents in India by half by 2020. The objective is to engage multiple stakeholders across the nation to tackle the relevant issue of the negligence of road safety practices and poor on-road infrastructure. The organization adopts a multi-domain approach by engaging people … Continued
Paris Peace Forum 2022
Throughout the history of Pakistan, secrecy has been the rule, and the disclosure of information an exception. KPIC took a lead role in designing an innovative intervention with the Center for Law and Democracy (CLD) to assess implementation of RTI laws. Despite being well established, current evaluation methodologies developed for SDG 16.10.2 still lack the … Continued
The aim of Singapore’s Approach to Human-Centric AI is to help Singapore foster public trust in AI as well as address the ethical and governance challenges arising from the use of AI, while enabling pervasive and widespread AI adaptation. This approach comprises three interlinked and multidisciplinary initiatives: a governance framework, an experienced and respected international … Continued
Nowadays, women are considered as a key fixture in terrorist organizations as many female jihadists taking role as suicidal bombers. At the same time, they also seem to have bigger roles in preventing and countering violent extremism. Accordingly, Wahid started Peace Village initiative with the support of UN Women. Peace Village is designed to empower … Continued
There is no bigger existential threat to world peace than climate change. We have been frenetically doing our part as a renewable energy business, via our sister company Sindicatum Renewable Energy, for the past decade. But we can’t do it alone. Renewable energy capacity still needs to grow tenfold in the next 20 years for … Continued
Issue: Deforestation and forest degradation are serious environment issues in Sri Lanka .In the beginning of the 20th Century Sri Lanka had 49% forest cover but it has been reduced to 26% at the beginning of 21st Century. The forest degradation is not merely a reduction of the forest area but the quality or the … Continued
We live in a country where religious dimensions of the conflict have attracted a lot of attention and the reason is cultural and religious diversity and extremism. We live in one of the most culturally diverse regions where we have different languages and ethnic surroundings but over the past several years a rise has been … Continued
