peace education

West African Network for Peacebuilding – Cote d’Ivoire (WANEP-CI)

WANEP-CI was established in 2003 to help facilitate cooperation among the organisations and institutions of civil society in the Ivory Coast and West Africa by promoting the regular sharing of information, experiences and resources on the problems of democracy, good governance, human rights, social justice, humanitarian action as well as prevention and conflict transformation. WANEP-CI [...] Read more >>>

Search For Common Ground (SFCG) – Ivory Coast

Search for Common Ground (SFCG) is an international peacebuilding organisation that entered the Ivory Coast in 2005 with the primary goal of reducing tensions among communities and groups, to facilitate reconciliation, strengthen social cohesion and empower Ivoirians to be in charge of mediation in their own conflicts. Working with a two-pronged approach aimed primarily at [...] Read more >>>

Organization of Active Women in Ivory Coast (OFACI)

Organisation of Active Women in Ivory Coast (OFACI) formed in 1999 when a group of young women who share a love of liberty, equality, justice and welfare in general and women in particular found themselves in a think tank working towards creating programmes that would uphold these values. The organisation focuses on: Promoting and protecting the [...] Read more >>>

Centre for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP)

The African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES) was established in 1962 at the request of the Bishops of West Africa to work on issues of economic and social development, specifically agricultural training programsme. In 2002, INADES expanded to develop into the Centre for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP) that consists of four [...] Read more >>>

African Union Club – Ivory Coast (UACI)

The African Union Club was established in June 1998 with the intention of bringing African civil society together to appropriate the values of the pan-African organisation such as democracy, human rights, promotion of gender and youth, the fight against poverty, economic and political unity of Africa. The African Union Club runs campaigns for civic education [...] Read more >>>

Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE)

The Centre for Human Rights Education (CHRE) is a Lahore-based organisation working to promote the awareness of human rights through education and training. In addition, under capacity building programmes, CHRE aims at religious tolerance and harmony in Pakistan. The centre has encouraged and promoted inter-faith harmony through awareness and dialogue. In this regard, CHRE initiated [...] Read more >>>

Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP)

The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP) is an initiative of a renowned Pakistani journalist, Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy. The organisation is dedicated to cultural and historic preservation, and to educate the community to foster an awareness of Pakistan’s history. In the area of peacebuilding, or rather a sustainable approach to promote peace in South Asia, the [...] Read more >>>

People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PPF)

People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PPF) was founded as a united civil society voice for peace in Sri Lanka in 1999. It is a coalition of over 200 organisations all of which work in the social service sector in Sri Lanka. In the face of the heightening conflict, working for peacebuilding became an [...] Read more >>>

Pax Christi Aachen

Pax Christi International is a catholic peace movement working on a global scale on wide issues in the fields of human rights, human security, non-violence, demilitarisation, just world order, interreligious dialogue, youthwork and non-violent conflict resolution. Since 2007, Pax christi Aachen (Germany) with an office in Derventa, in cooperation with ForumZFD (civil peace service) and [...] Read more >>>

Genesis Project

The Genesis Project was established in June 1996 in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The main goals of the project are: Teaching children and adults peaceful conflict prevention and resolution techniques; Reducing the negative impact of mines, unexploded ordinances and small arms and light weapons; Developing and supporting co-existence initiatives throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina; Helping war traumatised [...] Read more >>>