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Goal: Initiate, develop and support collaborative action among governmental, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental organizations to prevent and resolve destructive conflicts.
The primary function of the Alliance for Peacebuilding is to facilitate collaborative action to help prevent violent conflicts throughout the world. The Alliance sponsors frequent meetings, symposia and workshops to bring people and organizations together to develop the capacity for collaboration. The Alliance helped create and continues to support the International Peace and Prosperity Project in Guinea-Bissau, which serves as a prototype for the collaborative action model. We also helped create and support the International Conflict Prevention Consortium, which brings leading peacebuilders from all over the world together to develop strategies to respond to warnings of potential violence.
We are now embarking on a three-year fundraising campaign to apply the concept of Collaborative Action to Prevent Violent Conflicts on a larger scale.
The Collaborative Action to Prevent Violent Conflicts is built on these basic concepts:
- Disputes and conflicts need not deteriorate into violence.
- Preventing violence is far better than trying to end wars after they start.
- Nongovernmental organizations have the flexibility to be innovative and act quickly.
- All conflicts are complex, and a multifaceted approach is needed.
- Local civil society and government officials in conflict areas must own and lead the peacebuilding process for it to be effective and sustainable.
- Peacebuilding takes time, and it must be sustained for as long as necessary—usually over a period of several years.
- Collaboration among all participants in the peacebuilding process is essential.
The Collaborative Action to Prevent Violent Conflict process includes:
- Identification of the most appropriate places for collaborative action.
- Identification of and assembly of the most appropriate agencies and organizations.
- Collective assessment of the dynamics and drivers of the conflict.
- Development of a plan.
- Generation of resources to support implementation of the plan.
- Sustained action to prevent the outbreak of violence.
- Ongoing evaluation.
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"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."
~ Haile Selassie
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