A tribute by Dean Michael Weeder, December 5 2015 For a moment in our post-apartheid history we lived in the Camelot-like days of Nelson Mandela who had “showed us the way to freedom”. Perhaps this moment, like a dream come true with its grand narrative of messianic...

Evolving Common Spaces: Building common understanding and develop consensus through knowledge-based dialogues, the creation of...

Background Material In conflict resolution and peacebuilding circles, reconciliation is a notion commonly associated with transitional justice; with mechanisms like Truth and Reconciliation Commissions that are implemented after a civil war has ended, or after...

The Second Conference on Non-Formal Dialogue Processes and National Dialogues: Experiences from countries in transition 16 November – 18 November 2015 The House of the Estates (Säätytalo), Helsinki Building capacity for self- mediation,...

A Victory for Deliberative Democracy ​Last month’s award by the Norwegian Nobel Committee of the annual Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet is the first to be granted to organizers of a nationwide dialogue process.  Though Tunisia’s democracy...

We are extremely pleased to announce the launch of the Peace Appeal Foundation's Peace Changemakers Fellowship. For the last 15 years, the Peace Appeal has been privileged to recruit and work with extraordinary young peacemakers, whose skills, insights, empathy and...

Author: Desmond Tutu Publication Date: April 7, 2015 Link: ​Amazon Description: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho...

Harvard Divinity School, January 29, 2015 ​Remarks offered by Jeff Seul, Chair of the Peace Appeal Foundation If we focus narrowly on the perspectives and actions of the Charlie Hebdo attackers and their victims on the magazine’s staff, there are few contemporary...

Last October, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India - both indefatigable advocates for children's rights.  In Friday's announcement in Oslo, the Nobel Committee cited the recipients "struggle against the...

The United Nations Development Program hosted a three-day expert consultation on "Reconciliation as a Mechanisms for Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding." in Johannesburg, South Africa from September 2 - 4, 2014.  Peace Appeal Foundation Director, Shirley Moulder,...

2014 and 2015 have brought greater attention to the emerging role of national dialogues as transitional mechanisms for countries in conflict to chart their political futures.   The first large scale international conference on "National Dialogues and Mediation...

Conference on National Dialogue and Mediation Processes In partnership with the Finnish Foreign Ministry and others, the Peace Appeal Foundation hosted the world's first conference on national dialogue processes in Helsinki, Finland from March 30-April 2, 2014.  A...

Humanitarian Assistance Facilitation Act (HAFA) Will Remove Barriers to Charity and Peacebuilding - "The Humanitarian Assistance Facilitation Act (HAFA) is bipartisan legislation that would remove barriers that humanitarian aid and peacebuilding groups face when...

Beyond Diplomacy An article by PAF Executive Director Derek Brown appears in the Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2014 issue.