News from Our Partners: The National Convergence Platform is Launched in Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe. The National Convergence Platform was formally launched at Kentucky Airport Hotel in December 13, 2019. A new initiative involving the Zimbabwe Heads of Christian Denominations (a grouping of all Zimbabwe’s major church associations) and civil...
New Challenges to Peace: Artificial Intelligence and Weapons of War
By Sahana Bhagat Technological advances are rapidly outpacing our ability to reflect and decide whether a particular new technology is one that serves our public good. Technologists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, ethicists and legal scholars from Microsoft to MIT are...
Partner Report: Common Space Initiative Issues “Conditions of Return of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon”
Beirut, Lebanon. The Common Space Initiative for Shared Knowledge and Consensus Building hosted a conference on August 14th on Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Challenges for Return and Realities Back Home. The conference issued a summary booklet in September...
USIP Publishes “Nonformal Dialogues in National Peacemaking: Complementary Approaches”
The United State Institute of Peace published a report by Derek Brown, our co-director, entitled “Nonformal Dialogues in National Peacemaking: Complementary Approaches.” The report draws extensively on the experiences of national stakeholders in both...
Children and War – Guide
This recently created guide on children and war as part of the Peace and Dialogue Platform compiles essential knowledge resources and information on the subject. It is aimed to be an ongoing knowledge sharing space and accumulation of information around this...
Peace Education: World Press Photo Award Winning “Where the Children Sleep” Anchors New Initiative on Displacement & Belonging
The photos in Magnus Wennman’s series Where the Children Sleep show the individual suffering of the youngest refugees. The project recently won third place in the People/Stories division of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest. Charlottesville, Virginia. A multi-month...
Our Year End/Year Beginning Message.
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Peace Con 2018 – Alliance for Peacebuilding Annual Conference features Peace Appeal Members
Washington, D.C. The Alliance for Peacebuilding’s Annual Conference was held October 3-5th in Washington D.C.. Organized on the theme of “The Power of Collective Action” the conference featured keynotes and panels with Peace Appeal staff, board and...