A Network of People Building Peace
9 July 2019GPPAC calls for increased action on SDG16+
This week Member States meet at the United Nations in New York to review the progress of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 on peaceful, just and...
19 August 2019GPPAC Awards Grant to Build Capacity in Peace & Conflict Education
We are proud to announce that we recently awarded two grants to peace education projects in Armenia, Serbia and the United States.
The first is a...
12 August 2019International Youth Day: the Role of Youth in Peace and Security
12 August is International Youth Day! This day recognizes the importance of young men and women as drivers of change to many challenges and problems...
5 August 2019Post-Easter Sunday Attacks: The Peace and Security nexus in Sri Lanka
The modern conflict environment is complex due to the involvement of various actors and the changing nature and scope of conflicts. It is important...
31 July 2019Pakistan: the Rising Voices of Young Women
South Asia is home to one-quarter of the world’s population out of which 30 percent are youth. Especially, Pakistan is breaking a record in terms of...
11 July 2019ESWATINI: How regional expertise turns distrust into trust
GPPAC’s South African Regional Meeting was held in Eswatini in May 2019. Despite the dire situation on the ground and shrinking space for civil...
4 July 2019GPPAC welcomes historic meeting at the DMZ
The past few days have seen dramatic developments on the Korean Peninsula, with the historic meeting of President Donald Trump, Chairman Kim Jong Un,...
25 June 2019Sustaining Peace is Inclusive and Inter-Generational
It’s time to make the table bigger if we want to build on the legacy of the women’s movement in sustaining peace in the Pacific. This means bringing...
20 June 2019Amplifying voices of youth activists Kyrgyzstan
The situation in Kyrgyzstan is characterized by the considerable potential for conflicts caused by many different factors such as territorial...
19 June 2019GPPAC awarded prestigious Luxembourg Peace Prize
GPPAC was recently awarded the Luxembourg Peace Prize for Outstanding Peace Support. This is a big honour and a recognition of all the great and...
19 June 2019Webinar: Participatory Video as a Form of Peace Education
On 26 June, Lucy Nusseibeh will share her expertise on participatory video. Lucy is the founder and executive chair, Middle East Nonviolence and...