Where we work
Oxfam’s work to build peace and prevent conflict is part of our wider programme to promote the right to life and security. Our approach includes community-based peacebuilding, emergency relief to people affected by conflict and also campaigning and advocacy work at an international level.
Oxfam New Zealand has developed strong expertise in conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the Pacific.
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| Oxfam is working with Kup Women for Peace and Peace Foundation Melanesia in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. The work is reducing conflict and empowering communities to settle disputes without violence. Photo: Jerry Galea |
Partners for Peace
Oxfam and Kup Women for Peace formed a partnership with the Peace Foundation Melanesia in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The partnership is reducing conflict and improving the quality of life in the Kup district by training community members in skills to resolve local-level tensions and to settle disputes in a non-violent way. Recently, 120 community justice mediators were inducted into the programme, with representatives from all eight clans in Kup. Participants from conflicting clans are now working together and using conflict-reduction techniques based on traditional Melanesian mediation, which will allow peacebuilding to be sustained in the long-term.
Read more about our work in the Pacific:
Current emergencies
Oxfam International
Oxfam is currently working in emergency situations in over 30 countries around the world.
 Oxfam Coffee Break More than 2000 coffee breaks to be held this Fair Trade Fortnight, May 5-20. |
 West Africa food crisis In 2012, countries across the Sahel are again facing a serious food crisis. Oxfam is there but we need your help. |
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 Voices from Vanuatu Arvie and Thomas are helping young Ni Vanuatu learn lifelong skills. Read their stories. |