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Collaboration Connections
Several times each year, AfP sponsors meetings of NGOs, government officials and policy analysts to examine the conflict environment in specific places. The process includes identification of the organizations and agencies actively involved in the area, determination of the causes of conflict, exploration of possible solutions, and determination of what, if anything, the participants might be able to do together to help build peace. Recent Collaboration Connections sessions have focused on Turkey, Cyprus, India and Pakistan, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, the Horn of Africa, Georgia and Russia, and Nepal. Future sessions are planned for the Democratic Republic of Congo and Colombia.
Speaking and Counsel to Others
AfP leaders speak at conferences, on college campuses and for civic organizations throughout the country. Recent appearances have included meetings of executives at the World Bank; the World Affairs Challenge at the University of Denver’s School of International Studies; the World Affairs Council in Greensboro, NC; and the University of Maryland Law School, graduate students at Georgetown University, and to the graduating class of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. AfP is often invited to present policy recommendations to government officials and international organizations. For example, AfP presented recommendations for the East West Institute’s International Task Force on Preventive Diplomacy.
Advocacy for the Peacebuilding Community
The Alliance for Peacebuilding is the voice of the peacebuilding community. We speak on behalf of all of our members in the halls of the US Congress, in the Departments of State and Defense and with USAID and USIP. We also meet regularly on behalf of the community with officials at the United Nations, World Bank and other international institutions.
Vital Information
The Alliance for Peacebuilding provides member organizations with a single point of contact to share information about their best practices and lessons learned and we provide vital information about job opportunities, important reports, and grant and contract opportunities.
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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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