- 11 August 2021
#HLPF2021 as Experienced by Local Peacebuilders: An Interview with Daniel Antonio Martín Villar
We sat down with our member Daniel Antonio Martín Villar from Centro de Colaboración Civica Mexico to talk about his personal experience participating...
- 4 August 2021
PBC Blog: Institutionalising Sustaining Peace
Being a leader in sustaining peace requires significant capacity. Institutionalising processes that support sustaining peace can make a significant...
- 4 August 2021
Peace Education: Building Bridges for Peace across the Dniester River
The Dniester River is a deep blue stream that eventually ends in the Black Sea. It separates Moldova from its breakaway region Transnistria. Not only...
- 15 July 2021
#BuildingPeaceTogether through SDG5 in South Asia: What does it take?
The gender gap in South Asia is one of the worst in the world, second only to the MENA region. Women in the region are disadvantaged in the workplace...
- 14 July 2021
GPPAC calls for prevention and accountability for crimes against indigenous peoples in Mexico
GPPAC condemns the killing of indigenous activist Simón Pedro Pérez López and calls for prevention and accountability for crimes against indigenous...
- 12 July 2021
PBC Blog: UN System-Wide Peacebuilding Coherence
The 2020 Review of the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture resulted in an affirmation that promoting sustaining peace is a task for the whole United...
- 8 July 2021
From Rome throughout the World: Launching the renewed Rome Declaration for Peace, Justice and Inclusive Societies
On the second day of the High Level Political Forum 2021 (HLPF), a second iteration of the Rome Declaration was officially launched. A broad civil...
- 7 July 2021
Planting the Seeds of Change in Sri Lanka: Localising the SDGs
Every Sri Lankan tea you drink is a slightly bitter brew. Why you must wonder. That is because in every single tea leaf coming from Sri Lanka lies the...
- 29 June 2021
Far from Exclusive: Why should Local Peacebuilders participate in the High-Level Political Forum?
The High-Level Political Forum, short for HLPF, sounds really exclusive, don’t you think? Like a faraway pompous space, where a bunch of older white...
- 25 June 2021
PBC Blog: To Prevent or Not to Prevent - The Peacebuilding Commission as a Potential Conflict Prevention Body
Conflict prevention addresses the root causes of conflict. Therefore preventive efforts must address a wider range of issues than traditionally...
- 24 June 2021
Policy Briefs: Shrinking Civic Space in Latin America and The Caribbean
Our Regional Secretariat La Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (CRIES) in Latin America and The Caribbean conducted...
- 22 June 2021
PBC Blog: New Frontiers in Financing for Peacebuilding within the Peacebuilding Commission
Recently, the international community came to the recognition that the full implementation of peacebuilding and sustaining peace is not possible...