The Gathering in Glasgow on Conflict and Faith Event Report summarises the gathering held in Glasgow in November 2019.

Place for Hope celebrates a decade of peacebuilding and the Annual Review 2018-2019 pays tribute to all involved in the work of faith-based reconciliation, acknowledging the many people who have been a part of our vision to 'make every place of worship, a place for hope in the community'.

In times of intense shared stress and change, certain behaviours and patterns may emerge that ordinarily stay suppressed. The ways we respond to these changed patterns and unfamiliar behaviours, in ourselves, and in the communities in which we live and in which we serve, matter.

Place for Hope have produced a resource to support leaders in faith communities during these challenging times. Please download and share freely.

This Review focusses on the work our Team of 23 Practitioners have undertaken across 63 settings in Scotland and the North of England in the year 2017 – 2018. In addition, we celebrate here the growth in our partnership working, and our work with partners in South Sudan. ‘Reconciling Relationships’ was the name given to our partners seminar in October 2017 which is highlighted here in Reconciling Relationships Annual Review.

For a plant to flourish in the desert it needs resilience, persistence, and trust that a source of new life will, eventually, despite all the odds, manifest itself. What, or who offers such new life to you in a time of aridity, seeming death and possible despair? 

This article was publised in the Feb 2018 edition of Ascend Magazine 

On Tuesday 3rd October 2017 forty-seven delegates met in the airy space of the Mews in central Edinburgh to share reflections, visions and hopes for ‘Reconciling Relationships’. Please read the report on that event.

As we approach our 10th anniversary year in 2019, we continue to build on our experience supporting faith communities through times of change, conflict and transition. While exciting opportunities lie ahead as we develop our partnership working, this Annual Review looks back over our achievements in 2016 - 2017. 

• Mediation and dialogue in faith contexts
• Understanding and transforming conflict

Free Online Learning Resources

Place for Hope are working in partnership with the Conforti Institute and Faith in Community Scotland on the In Wi' the Mix project. Follow the link to learn more about our work tackling sectarianism in our communities.

Visit website: http://www.faithincommunityscotland.org/in-wi-the-mix-resources/

• Mediation and dialogue in faith contexts
• Understanding and transforming conflict

Mediation, training, facilitation, coaching

Visit website: http://www.core-solutions.com

• Background material for working with faith groups
• Understanding and transforming conflict

Training for church leaders in peacebuidling and conflict transformation

Visit website: http://www.bbministries.org.uk

• Understanding and transforming conflict

Resources for understanding conflict, and high conflict.

Visit website: http://www.highconflictinstitute.com

Article by Hugh Donald, featured in 'The Edge', discussing the call to reconciliation and the journey of Place for Hope. “A call to reconciliation has been a recurring theme in the past year. It was the focus of the Queen’s Christmas message ‘a reminder to us all that even in the unlikeliest of places, hope can still be found’.”

Article by Hugh Donald, featured in 'Inspires' describing the work of Place for Hope. "The pathway to healing and reconciliation requires face-to-face encounters. It is in these encounters that we can face difference and diversity."