A Network of People Building Peace
12 November 2018UN Update: The Peacebuilding Commission’s Annual Session
On 12 November, GPPAC attended the Peacebuilding Commission’s full-day Annual Session, focused this year on “Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace in the...
23 August 2018Kofi Annan: the Loss of a Peace Icon
It is with great sadness that we have received the news of the passing of Mr Kofi Annan, former secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel...
15 March 2018Meeting the Challenge of Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace Through Partnerships and Inclusivity
The dual resolutions on peacebuilding and sustaining peace adopted in April 2016 by the United Nations (UN) Security Council and General Assembly (S...
13 March 2018Palestine UN Membership Application: What does it mean for Palestinians?
As of January, Palestine expressed renewed interest to apply for full UN membership for the state of Palestine in order to demand international...
8 March 2018Report: Building Sustainable Peace
Following extensive interview and desk based research, GPPAC and QUNO released their report, ‘Building Sustainable Peace: How inclusivity...
21 December 2017Interview: 'how to save the peace in 2018?' with GPPAC Executive Director
The post-conflict in Colombia has become a sort of obsession for different universities and organizations around the world. The future of the...
28 April 2017GPPAC Signs Letter to the UN Secretary-General on United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
On 3 April, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonió Guterres presented his new report (A/71/858) to the General Assembly. In his report Guterres...
1 March 2017The Prevention Platform participated in the bi-annual training of new Peace and Development Advisors
On 16 February the Civil Society-UN Prevention Platform, co-facilitated by GPPAC and the Quaker UN Office in cooperation with UN Department of...
1 March 2017Global Call for Nominations SRSG; DSRSG at the UN
The UN Secretariat is launching a call for nominations to enlarge the pool of potential candidates for positions of Special Representative of the...
22 February 2017Relaunched website covers the UN Peacebuilding Commission
GPPAC and WFM-IGP are relaunching a new and improved version of the betterpeace.org website that covers the work of the UN's Peacebuilding Commission ...
15 February 2017GPPAC at the DPKO Workshop - 17 January 2017
On 18-20 January GPPAC participated in a retreat of the UN Department of Peacekeeping's Civil Affairs section in New York. Heads of the Civil Affairs...
11 January 2017New UN Secretary General outlines his strategy for sustaining peace: Prevention is in everyone’s interest
In his first public speech to the Security Council, the new Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres outlined his strategy in the area of peace...