According to Simon Arthy, peace building adviser for the UK's Department for International Development (DfID) office in Nepal, around 80% of the country's disputes are resolved by informal processes.
The FARC, whose ageing leaders know they have suffered strategic military defeat, have as big a stake as the president in peace.An adviser to Mr Santos insists his campaign's own polling suggests a clear victory.
Yossi Alpher, a former peace process adviser to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, said several factors — such as dry winds, homes built close to forests, and potential lack of preparedness — came together to create the crisis.
"The humanitarian needs are going to be very great after this," Jeremiah Young, a policy and peace-building adviser for the aid group World Vision, told Reuters.
Agus Wandi, a peace and conflict adviser with the UN, worked earlier this year in Syria.
Anne Marie Goetz, chief adviser on peace and security at UN Women, said more funds should be channelled to support local women's groups.
"There's the idea of a two-state solution in the abstract, and then there's converting it into a map," said Mr. Gold, a former peace negotiator and Netanyahu adviser.
"This communiqué will do nothing to bring about a general peace," said Abdelaziz Sam, an adviser to a branch of the Sudan Liberation Army that signed the 2006 peace accords with Khartoum, according to Reuters.
Mr. Brahimi told them he was not available and intended to take time off before taking up his new position as Mr. Annan's special adviser on peace and security, the diplomat said.
Reuters quoted a spokesman for the Philippine president, GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO, as saying that she had mentioned naming him "adviser on peace and order" after an encounter at the World Economic Forum.
