Winner of the Stories of Peace Challenge: Recycling Weapons of War into Tools for Peace building in Post-conflict Mozambique

This is a winning story of the Stories of Peace Challenge by Amy Schwartzott. All the winning stories have been published in "People Building Peace 2.0". The Transforming Arms into...

In The Guardian: 'Spain's old wounds still fester,' by Victoria Carreras

This letter to the editor, published 12th of February in The Guardian, was a response by Victoria Carreras, Peace Portal manager, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) to the...

Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum

The fifth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will take place from 25 to 27 June 2012 in Bonn. This year the Forum will focus on "Culture, Education, Media – Shaping a Sustainable World". The Forum...

Community: Regional Capacity for Conflict Prevention now live

This community supports the project of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict Foundation (GPPAC) and West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) on 'Enhancing Regional Response...

Peace Portal: Successfully Launched

The Peace Portal was successfully launched last Thursday 26th of January. Joris Voorhoeve, Co-chair of the GPPAC Foundation opened the event. Marjolein de Jong, the Alderman and Deputy Mayor of the...

Peace Animations Award

Foundation for Peace and Foundation for a Culture of Peace have organised "4th Animation's for Peace Award", with the slogan "We create peace day by day", the award's aim is the compilation of...

Addressing three missing issues in the UNSG report on conflict-related sexual violence

  The UN Secretary-General's January 2012 Report on conflict-related sexual violence...

Director of Planning and Organisational Performance, Conciliation Resources
Conciliation Resources is looking for a Director of Planning and Organisational Performance who will oversee new practices and policies of organisational planning, design, monitoring and evaluation in...

Intern Public Outreach and External Communication, Global Secretariat of GPPAC
Starting date:To be determined, somewhere in March/April 2012 Deadline for applications:18 March 2012– interviews will be held from 21 March 2012 onwards. Duration: minimum of 3 months (4 days a...

Research and Development Officer, Generations For Peace
Generations For Peace is an international non-governmental charitable organisation dedicated to the innovative and sustainable use of sport for peace building and development. Founded by HRH Prince...

Fearing the Unthinkable

In ‘ How did we forget about mutually assured destruction’ of 15 Feb. 2012 Tom de Castella...

Time for Withdrawal of US Marines from Japan

Feb. 10, 2012 In ‘ U.S. likely to scale down plans for bases in Japan and Guam’ in the...

Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Generations for Peace
Generations For Peace is an international non-governmental charitable organisation dedicated to the innovative and sustainable use of sport for peace building and development. Under the direction of...

Crisis Management: Understanding the Real Impact of ICTs, Social Media and Crisis Mapping, by Daniel Stauffacher, Barbara Weekes, Sanjana Hattotuwa

The idea of trying to better understand the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in promoting and building peace emerged, at a policy level, in the context of the World Summit on...

Online Communications Specialist, United States Institute of Peace
United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Office of Public Affairs and Communications currently seeks a full time Digital Communications Manager to oversee all aspects of the Institute's digital...

Senior ICT and Media Advisor, War Child Holland
In War Child, the use of ICT & Media tools in our programs has become an important means to reach more children and young people affected by war. ICT & Media tools are applied as creative methods to...

97.14 percent for Arkadag

The Central Asian state of Turkmenistan held presidential elections on February 12. The Election...

China's USD 200 Million Gift: Dilemmas and More Dilemmas for the African Union

    By William Tsuma [1] and Dimpho Motsamai [2] A lot...

Rethinking the Nobel Peace Prize

I remember my annoyance in 2006, when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus for his...