Cate Buchanan
Co-Managing Partner
Cate is a mediation support and process design specialist focusing on inclusive political analysis, conflict prevention and conflict sensitivity strategies.
Conflict prevention, gender and feminist perspectives
With Shelagh Daley, WPS Helpdesk for the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (2025).
Women, Peace, and Security Funding Dynamics in Myanmar, 2010–2020
With Khin Khin Mra, International Peace Support and Effective Peacebuilding in Myanmar series, The Asia Foundation (2024).
"Myanmar 1989–2020: Conflict Management Ceasefires"
With Anonymous and Govinda Clayton, in Ceasefires: stopping the violence and negotiating peace, Govinda Clayton et al, editors. Georgetown University Press (2025), p. 242-276.
The localisation discourse in post-2021 Myanmar: implications for conflict sensitivity.
With Rebecca Haines, Development in Practice (2023).
Advancing localisation in Myanmar: One step forward, two steps backwards?
with Rebecca Haines, Practice Note, Reimagining Conflict Sensitivity (2023).
Trust and relationships in peacemaking
with Michelle Gehrig and Sally Holt and Alexander Ramsbotham, US Institute for Peace (2023).
Gender-inclusive peacemaking: strategies for mediation practitioners
Mediation Practice Series. Geneva: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2021).
Pioneering peace pathways–making connections to end violent conflict.
Accord 29, Conciliation Resources (2020).
From clause to effect: including women’s rights and gender in peace agreements
With Antonia Potter Prentice et al, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2012).
Surviving gun violence in El Salvador: a tax on firearms to increase health budget .
Background paper No. 3, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2007).
UN Experts Group report on women’s meaningful participation in peace processes and gender-inclusive peace agreements.
With Katarina Salmela and Megan Manion, UN Women (2018).
Making inclusive analysis a reality – strengthening political analysis in Myanmar
with Rebecca Haines, Practice Note, Reimagining Conflict Sensitivity (2023).
Gun Violence, Disability and Recovery
Surviving Gun Violence Project (2014).
The Women are Ready: An Opportunity to Transform Peace in Myanmar.
With Caitlin Williscroft, Peace Support Fund (2016).
“The health and human rights of survivors of gun violence: Charting a research and policy agenda”
Health and Human Rights Journal, 13/2, December (2011).
Curbing the demand for small arms in South East Asia
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, (2002).
Assistance to war wounded combatants and individuals associated with fighting forces in disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes.
Background paper No. 4, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, (2007).
Civilians, guns and peace processes: Approaches and possibilities.
With Mireille Widmer, Negotiating Disarmament Briefing Paper No. 1, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (2006).
No Relief: Surveying the effects of gun violence on humanitarian and development personnel.
With Robert Muggah, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Small Arms Survey, (2005).
Missing Pieces: Directions for reducing gun violence through the UN process on small arms control
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, (2005). Updated in 2007 and co-published with the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic and Portuguese.
In the line of fire: Surveying the perceptions of humanitarian and development personnel of the impacts of small arms and light weapons
With Ryan Beasley and Robert Muggah, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue and Small Arms Survey (2003).
Putting guns in their place: A resource pack for two years of action by humanitarian agencies
With Mireille Widmer, Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, (2004).
