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ACICAM is a Colombian business organisation working in the leather industry. It has a firm commitment to 'business for peace' and providing a coherent structure to re-introduce demobilised soldiers and miltiamen into employment.
The aim of the association is to reduce poverty and eliminate harmful practices against women in the community.
Al Manar provides training, education and capacity-building in a number of fields related to peacebuilding, and offers legal representation in the pursuit of peace in Sudan.
This organisation empowers women to engage in conflict resolution and teaches women and girls how to deal with the post-conflict security and economic situation in the Dilling area.
This organisation uses a wide variety of means - from community centres to NGO coalitions - to bring together different ethnic groups, and to educate and develop communities in Sabaragamuwa, Eastern, Central, and Uva Provinces in Sri Lanka.
ASFADDES is a human rights organisation that tries to break the culture of silence and impunity surrounding forced disappearances in Colombia. The organisation provides assistance and support to families of disappeared people, aiming to transform painful experiences through struggling for justice.
OPDS (Office for Social Promotion and Development) works in the north of Colombia to raise awareness of human rights and to protect them through legal services.
This Sudanese organisation works to empower and train vulnerable individuals within the IDP community in alternatives to violence and conflict resolution techniques. It is committed to helping establish peace in selected IDP communities and spread this peace throughout the Sudan.
The Centre for Children's Theatre Development (CCTD) was created as part of the Multimedia Centre in Pristina, and allows Kosovan children to enage with their society's most pressing issues. Through drama the Centre teaches them about their rights, democracy, and reconciliation.
Centre for Education Travnik runs multi-ethnic programmes for young people to rebuild and reintegrate divided communities.
CENTHUR is committed to non-violent means of resolving Nepal's conflict. Their main methods are collection and dissemination of information, lobbying and support for conflict victims, among others.
CICSA is primarily a human rights organisation, but is specifically concerned with minimising the effects of the conflict in Nepal on civilians and children.
This youth-led citizens association teaches the skills necessary to build intercultural understanding by training young people from diverse backgrounds in project management, leadership, human rights through theatre, and each other's languages.
CPBR aims to bridge divisions in Sri Lanka by creating networked peacebuilding groups in diverse areas of the country, simultaneously empowering communities to address their own needs and raising awareness of the similarity of such needs across the country's ethnic boundaries.
CINEP (Research and Public Education Centre) researches and documents conflict, development and human rights in Colombia, while working to build the capacity of the country's marginalised groups.
This organisation focuses on the promotion of human rights and peace in the mid-western Dang region of Nepal, but also recognises the importance of economic uplift in averting future conflict and supports local people in income generation schemes.
This organisation recognises that children are disproportionately affected by conflict. Through training programmes in peace-related activities, it aims to teach children to solve conflicts without resorting to violence.
A Colombian women's organisation working ito address issues concerning women that arise from the conflict in the Cali region. It aims to educate, empower, and promote women and women's issues to the public, policy-makers, and the national and international media.
This Nepali peacebuilding project unites 42 NGOs to mobilise volunteers to campaign for justice and human rights.
CBM is a grassroots multi-ethnic NGO which aims to identify and advance the common concerns citizens to empower communities to work together and establish means of peaceful co-existence.
Concordis International is a small British organisation that works with individuals and groups in conflict situations, including Sudan, to build relationships across conflict boundaries.
Active in 31 countries and with 90 seperate development projects, this organisation works on a global scale to guarantee basic human rights to those affected by conflict. By securing them with safe drinking water, providing them with training and education they work towards peace in the communities.
Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris has a direct presence in 12 departments in Colombia, working towards Peace and Civility. Their programmes include the rehabilitation of ex-combatants into civil society, political visibility for victims of violence and a school for democracy, peace and tolerance.
This branch of an international association supports the development of science and culture in Kosovo whilst promoting cooperation to break down barriers between the different ethnic and national groups.
This organisation was founded to work on behalf of the 'untouchable' cast of Nepal, but recently it has moved into the areas of conflict transformation and peace-building. Its focus is on minimising the effect of conflict on children and raising awareness about non-violent conflict resolution.
Danfe Yuba Club promotes economic advancement through training, working on the premise that young Nepalis will be less likely to get involved in armed conflict if they can engage in and support themselves through economic activity.
The organisation believes that women can provide a unique and valuable perspective on the conflict in Sudan. It believes that through education and capacity building it can enhance the capability of women to participate in the peace process.
This organisation stimulates economic growth in the Zenica Doboj region, creating tourism-building projects that unite people across ethnic and national lines. Through providing returned refugees and unemployed people with stable livelihoods, they aim to reduce the risk of conflict.
DYRIG seeks to reduce the impact of Nepal's conflict on children's rights by providing them with the ability to resist pressure to join the conflict.
The Kosovo office of this international peacebuilding network works in policy development, mentoring and education to support peaceful conflict resolution.
This organisation implements projects in peace-building, education, and health. They teach women how to feed children well and generate income for their families.
ES is primarily a conservation organisation, but emphasises the links between environmental issues, develoment and peace in Sudan.
An organisation working with groups of local people in the Koshi zone of Nepal to raise awareness of social justice and promote peace throughout the wider community.
FOSAD is a human rights organisation which aims to reduce the impact of human rights violations as a result of the Maoist conflict in Nepal.
FEPS aims to increase the inclusion and capabilities of young people in building peace and democracy in Sudan.
FFP works with local and international specialists in Nepal through research, training and workshops to share their experiences on peacebuilding.
This Christian organisation works in several different areas in its attempts to achieve peace in Colombia. They mediate discussions between guerilla groups, create small rural social projects and have established a bakery to help vunerable children who have been affected by the conflict.
Fundgamma have been working with NGOs, civil society organisations, and government bodies to increase co-operation between them, develop policy, increase awareness, and build capacity throughout the groups. Their work has resulted in an improvement in the organisations' ability to address the issues of human security, the preservation of live, and peace and disarmament in Colombia.
The organisation has been working on the protection of human rights, which it believes are essential for peace in Nepal.
This organization dedicates its efforts to educating young people about HIV and their health, working with many dangerous and violent gangs, enabling them to see there is a chance to leave conflict behind.
The organisation produces reports documenting human rights abuses in Nepal, believing that exposure of such abuses is the best deterrent against their future occurrence.
A Sri Lankan organisation with the aim of improving peace and security through environmental sustainability and the fostering of congenial inter-ethnic relationships.
FOHRID aims to shape public opinion and form a culture of peace in Nepal.
The organisation protects human rights, especially the rights of children, which have been violated as a result of the conflict in Nepal.
The organisation aims to reduce the impact of the conflict in Nepal by researching and disseminating information on missing persons.
The organisation is committed to strengthening the human rights situation in Nepal, especially the rights of children and conflict victims.
HURPES aims at promoting peaceful methods of conflict resolution, and seeks to address the human rights violations committed by the conflicting parties in Nepal.
The organisation seeks to improve the economic condition of freed bonded labourers and other victims of Nepal's conflict by providing them with training and education opportunities.
HUCODEC's work to protect human rights in Nepal has brought it into the areas of conflict resolution and peace-building. It has now taken on a role of intermediary in the conflict, bridging the gap between the government and the Maoists.
HURF aims to protect and promote human rights and encourage peace in Nepal by establishing systems to resolve disputes peacefully.
HUSADEC believes that the Nepali conflict and associated human rights violations should be resolved by peaceful means. Core areas of their work involve training peace activists, negotiating and conducting dialogue between key players.
HRWF Nepal is an NGO committed to promoting peace and human rights through training and building capacity and awareness, especially among vulnerable groups.
This Colombian organisation develops and runs agricultural projects, inviting and training vulnerable local people to participate.
INSEC is a large organisation within Nepal. Its broad scope covers a wide range of projects, including lobbying of conflicting parties and grassroots work on human rights and with conflict victims.
IHRICON is an organisation set up by professionals in various fields, working to bring about changes in what it perceives as a negative human rights record, with particular regard to women and children, and to strengthen women's ability to become effective peacebuilders in Nepal.
This initiative works towards protecting and promoting human rights in Nepal by establishing and training community groups. These groups are geared towards the full, active participation of disadvantaged people from the communities.
IRSD works to promote inter-ethnic understanding and respect in Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura District. They work through childrens clubs, providing activities that unite children of different ethnicities, empowering them as a voice for peace and tolerance, and setting an example for the adults of the area.
The IRC seeks to provide urgent, lifesaving relief to people in critical situations across Sudan.
This organisation facilitates dialogue between communities in conflict in Isiolo. It has also collaborated with the Kenyan government on gun collection schemes.
This organisation works with people displaced by the Sri Lankan conflict and the communities hosting these Internally Displaced Persons; it works at a community level to improve conditions by providing infrastructure and transforming lives through training.
The JMC, through the media, seeks to improve the social status of Dalits in Nepal, and to campaign for their inclusion in the peace process.
This Nepali organisation seeks to awaken people to the importance of women's rights and its relationship with successful peacebuilding.
PCDF has been fighting corruption in Nepal, which they believe is fuelling the conflict.
A Nepali organisation working with women and marginalised groups to promote gender equality and a better status for women in poverty-stricken areas. The organisation runs programmes to mobilise women in the peace process and in income generation.
Jeewa Shakthi works for conflict transformation in Sri Lanka by focussing on the socio-political causes of conflict and bringing people together to educate them on non-violent means of conflict resolution.
KIRDARC conducts a variety of peace-related and human rights work in Nepal involving development, public awareness and humanitarian projects, among others.
This organisation coordinates all peacebuilding activities in the Laikipia West district. It facilitates meetings with the Government, politicians, and elders, and mediates between conflicting parties.
Lofabel works to empower young people in the community by giving them the chance to learn a range of computer skills, increasing their employment opportunities and perspectives of self worth.
MAMAN's mission is to support human security in Sudan by adopting strategies that bring about social transformation towards protection of civilians, respect for human rights principles, rehabilitation and reintegration of combatants, and sustainable development.
MPP (Media for Peace) is a journalist group created to encourage responsible conflict reporting in Colombia.
A well-equipped audio-visual production company with the capabilities and drive to create documentary pieces about human rights violations and the conflict situation in Colombia.
This international network of musicians and peacemakers use music and arts to facilitate the interaction and mobilisation of children and young people throughout South East Europe and the Middle East. They providing training, education, consultancy and support.
The organisation believes that a state of peace is required in order for social and economic development to take place in Nepal. It has a number of initiatives working towards these ends.
An organisation with broad aims to advance the peace process in Nepal by building the capacity of women to partake in all sectors of society.
The organisation seeks to promote peace in Nepal by implementing income generation and economic advancement programmes for conlict victims from a variety of backgrouds.
The organisation seeks to promote peace in Nepal through education of local communities, and by facilitating their interaction with other peacebuilders.
NESPEC is a small organisation using various methods to promote a culture of peace in the local area.
NSCC is a group of Christian churches which facilitates peace conferences in South Sudan.
NESI is a network of NGOs, created to strengthen civil society and develop its role in Sudan's decision-making processes.
Pact believes that increasing the capability of local communities and organisations to manage peacebuilding activities at the grassroots level will be a more effective road towards sustainable peace.
This organisation's staff are lawyers. They provide legal services, facilitate conflict resolution, and spread knowledge of human rights law and the benefits of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).
PHPO is primarily involved with improving inter-ethnic communication and understanding; and raising awareness of gender, human rights, and health issues in Sri Lanka's Anuradhapura District.
The coalition of the People's Peace Front brings together about 200 organisations to work collaboratively on raising public awareness of the issues surrounding conflict resolution in Sri Lanka. They work towards creating a dialogue between ethnically segregated communities and help to promote inter-ethnic understanding and sensitivity.
This organisation works to build bridges between the different ethnic communities who live side by side. It is essential to strengthen these relationships to reduce conflict and they are achieving peace through their methods of enlightening people to have respect for one another.
A Sri Lankan organisation which works at a grassroots level, principally with the communities of the Tamil tea plantation workers, empowering them to articulate their views and concerns more clearly.
This network of NGOs conducts peacebuilding workshops and youth exchanges, teaching people the importance of their shared environmental heritage in the Zenica - Doboj region.
RHRO assists victims of the Nepali conflict in defending themselves against human rights violations.
The organisation works to protect the rights and defend the issues of Dalits, women and children in rural Nepal, as they believe these groups are most vulnerable to the effects of conflict.
This Nepali organisation works in Sankhuwa Sabha, mobilising local people to run awareness campaigns, cut down on domestic violence and set up income generation programmes, as well as launching peace projects in local schools.
This organisation works with communities from under-developed rural areas to improve their social and economic situation. They also work with Internally Displaced Persons in rural areas in order to help their immediate situation and give them better post-conflict prospects.
A Nepali organisation specialising in delivering psychosocial counselling and support, which now focuses on tending to the needs of conflict victims. SPK also trains members of its partner organisations to deliver counselling across the nation.
Through two national networks of community based and non-governmental organisations, Samadeepa have been working towards positive conflict transformation in Sri Lanka. Their efforts have been focused on the promotion of peace and good governance, the strengthening of civil society, and the empowerment of the nation's people.
A well established Sri Lankan organisation, Samasevaya works to promote peace through development and by raising awareness.
The Samburu District Peace Committee is an umbrella organisation for peace-building and development initiatives in the region. It organises reconciliation meetings between warring tribes, deals with issues of competition over scarce resources, facilitates rapid responses to prevent the escalation of conflict, and advocates for the economic empowerment of women and youth.
SCOPE builds the capacity of rural communities to use the knowledge they already possess in order to solve agricultural problems. They also provide training in diverse areas including first aid and pump repairs.
This Nepali organisation works to ensure peace through the elimination of caste and gender discrimination, and through the development and education of children as future peacebuilders.
An organisation working on support and resettlement programmes for conflict victims in Nepal.
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This Sri Lankan organisation provides multi-ethnic and multi-religious forums for communities to develop a sense of unity with their neighbours. The aim is to protect society from factors which may serve to increase ethnic tensions.
SPARC operates within Sri Lankan universities to provide a focal point for work on social and economic development as a means of addressing the conflict.
An organisation committed to raising awareness of peaceful means of conflict resolution and providing support for Nepal's conflict victims.
SLIMG seeks to promote peace through holistic development programmes which combine economic and human development, and which bring conflicting parties together in the pursuit of common goals.
SCBRC is a wide-ranging organisation working towards the alleviation of the conflict in South Sudan.
SECS seeks peace and popular welfare in Sudan through environmental conservation and sustainable development.
SONAD seeks to promote active non-violence, to raise the capacity of young people, IDPs and other marginalised groups, and to build on widespread examples of good inter-religious relations as a means to peace.
The SSC is a centre of research and discussion on all aspects of Sudanese life. By emphasising diversity and the plurality of cultures, the Centre aims to make peace a practical, living aspect of Sudanese life, rather than just a theory.
SIRC believes that protection of religous freedoms and tolerance of all faiths is essential for peace. They organise trainings and awareness-raising for religous leaders and the public in order to spread a message of peaceful co-existence.
SPF focuses on behavioural research to identify types of activity conducive to peace or to conflict, and on dissemination of their findings through publications, capacity building and advocacy.
SUDO seeks to promote peace and development in Sudan with an emphasis on human rights, through a series of peace conferences, training sessions and development projects.
This organisation provides a variety of services aimed at uplifting and preserving Sudanese culture. The focus of their work is on accurately reflecting the culture of the people to better resolve the conflict and promote understanding.
This organisation helps resolve tribal resource conflicts, and conducts capacity building and education focusing on the role of women and youth.
UDHF empowers civil society to connect people across geographical, ethnic and language barriers. They also work to address domestic violence towards women and promote co-existance.
A Colombian university with extensive experience in training teachers and educators, which has formed its own response to the conflict by training specialists in conflict resolution and management. The university is especially keen to collaborate with other institutions carrying out similar work.
The political science faculty of the University of the Andes is committed to research into the political phenomena particular to Colombia; and to using this research to provide insight into potential solutions to Colombian socio-political problems.
VallenPaz (Peace Valley) aims to reduce the number of people involved in Colombia's armed conflict by encouraging the renewal of agricultural activity.
The organisation aims to raise the capacity of women in Nepal to enable them to participate more actively in the peace process.
WEPD seeks to improve the participation and status of women in Sudan's peace process.
WOREC seek to mitigate the impact of Nepal's conflict on women, children and minority groups through counselling, capacity building and advocacy projects.
Youth Centre Livno is a non-profit NGO formed in early 2000. It organises international volunteer camps, advocates good youth policies and educates people in the region about peace, tolerance, and cross-ethnic and cross-border work.
The mission of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) is to provide protection for the victims of human rights violations, establish new connections between the post-war generations, and enhance the participation of youth in transitional justice processes. YIHR promotes truth, justice, peace and equality as its core values.
This network of youth NGOs promotes voluntary work and youth activism in the Kakanj municipality, in order to normalise peace and inter-ethnic tolerance. It also conducts training in project management and non-violent communication.
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