Conflict

Conflict is a cause and an effect of poverty. Each year, millions of people are killed, injured or forced to leave their homes as a result of armed conflict.

Families are torn apart, children miss out on an education and communities go hungry because it is too dangerous for them to farm their land.

Even after a peace settlement is reached the violence often continues. Sustained armed conflict can put a country’s development back years and plunge whole populations into poverty.

Colombia
SCIAF is a member of ABColombia, a coalition of five leading charities from the UK and Ireland working for peace and human rights in Colombia. Click here to find out more.

The Democratic Republic of Congo
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country that has been ravaged by years of violent conflict, rape is being used as a weapon of war. South Kivu, in the eastern DRC has some of the highest levels of rape and sexual violence in the world. Read SCIAF's chilling report.