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Our Aim

Peacebuilding UK’s mission is to support and build local capacities for peace in the Russian Federation, predominantly in the North Caucasus region. This involves supporting and jointly implementing projects with staff, local groups and individuals in the region to promote sustainable peace, well-being and the enjoyment of human rights, with a particular focus on children, youth and other vulnerable people.

Peacebuilding UK’s partner organization in Russia, the Russian Charitable Fund ‘Centre for Peacebuilding and Community Development’, has offices throughout the North Caucasus. Peacebuilding UK has a long term approach to its work in the North Caucasus. Through running a wide range of programmes in the region, we aspire to help rebuild communities and lives following years of armed conflict and continuing instability and economic hardship, and to develop necessary conditions for peace, development and reconciliation.

Background

The work of Peacebuilding UK is being conducted by our partners in difficult circumstances. Ethnic tensions within and between republics of the North Caucasus and over a decade of warfare and instability in Chechnya that has spilled over into neighbouring republics, has led to a general situation of instability and mistrust in the region. There is significant potential for further violence. A deep sense of powerlessness prevails, particularly among young people, due to widespread corruption, political oppression, human rights abuses, rising rates of crime, unemployment, lack of access to higher education for many, and domestic violence. Communication among people living in the various republics is very limited, leading to fear, mistrust and strenghthening of stereotypes.