Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to inform you that Conciliation Resources' Annual Report for 2004 is now available on our website as a downloadable PDF file at: http://www.c-r.org/pubs/annreps/annreps.shtml

Last year marked CR's first decade and another year of hard work and significant achievements. We expanded the scope and impact of our Caucasus programme's dialogue and civil society capacity-building work in Georgia and Abkhazia, and extended our media and public awareness work into Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorny Karabakh. We also moved from having projects and partnerships in Uganda to establishing a coherent programme.

Accord had another productive year, with initiatives and new publications on Colombia and Angola. Our West Africa programme carried out groundbreaking work with partners engaged in community-based mediation, as well as peacebuilding work with media, youth and women's groups in Sierra Leone and the sub-region.

Drawing upon this work with local partners in conflict zones, CR is taking steps into the arena of influencing international policies that affect the resolution and transformation of conflicts. Our latest Accord publication, Choosing to engage: armed groups and peace processes, released this month, is a good example and builds upon our earlier conclusions on the global need for better public participation in peacemaking. It makes the case for a policy shift towards more committed dialogue with armed groups and other non-state actors to end violent conflicts and strengthen the rule of law.

We look forward to future contact and cooperation with you, and wish you all the best in your work.

Yours sincerely
Andy Carl
Director
Conciliation Resources
173 Upper Street, Islington
London N1 1RG UK
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 73597728
Fax: +44 (0) 20 73594081
Email: communications at c-r.org
Website: http://www.c-r.org