Causeway Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution
Lisburn-based peacebuilding consultancy linked to Sir Jeffrey Donaldson; CSSF contractor
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The Causeway Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution was founded in 2010.[1] It is a contractor to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) under the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF).
Overview
openDemocracy reported in July 2021 that the Causeway Institute for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution, running since 2010 and based in Lisburn, was owned by Kingsley Donaldson, brother of then DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who chaired its advisory board. It said the company had "received Foreign Office funding" and had rebranded as CIPCR International after Companies House questioned its use of the word "institute".[2]
CSSF/ISF and other UK government work
An FCO Freedom of Information response in August 2016 said the Causeway Institute received £165,864.72 in 2015–16 for project work in Bahrain, under the UK's technical-assistance package. It said "the project with the Causeway Institute has ended".[3] A later FOI release (0671-17) covered contracts with CIPCR and Causeway Public Affairs Consultancy Limited, and reports by Causeway for the British embassy in Bahrain.[4]
Controversies and criticism
A 2018 report by Reprieve and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy described Causeway, "a private Belfast-based company chaired by" Donaldson, as one of the FCO's principal implementers in Bahrain alongside NI-CO. It said Causeway was paid to train the National Institute for Human Rights and NGOs "affiliated with the Bahraini monarchy". The report raised "concerns about a conflict of interest" given the DUP's links to the FCO's Bahrain reform agenda.[5] The FCO's position, in the same FOI response, was that UK support was "the most constructive way to achieve long-lasting and sustainable reform in Bahrain".[3]
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Notes
- ↑ CIPCR, Causeway Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, accessed 22 August 2013.
- ↑ Peter Geoghegan and Martin Williams, openDemocracy, Jeffrey Donaldson’s peace ‘institute’ changes name after authorities step in openDemocracy, 9 July 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Freedom of Information Act 2000 request ref: 0723-16 GOV.UK, 24 August 2016.
- ↑ Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FOI release: Causeway Institute and Bahrain GOV.UK, 12 October 2017.
- ↑ Reprieve and BIRD, Training Torturers Reprieve, May 2018.
- ↑ CIPCR Advisory Board, Causeway Institute for Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, accessed 22 August 2013.