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  • Annan, Kofi
    Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997. On 29 June 2001, acting on a recommendation by the Secu ...
  • Ben Ami, Shlomo
    Former Israel Foreign Affairs minister.
  • Coalition of women for peace
    The Coalition of Women for Peace has become one of the leading voices in Israel advocating for a just and viable peace between Israel and Palestine ever since its founding in November 2000, just six weeks after the current Intifada began. The Coalition bri ...
  • European Centre for Conflict Prevention
    The ECCP is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peace-building strategies. It supports and connects people working for peace worldwide.
  • Falk, Richard A.
    Professor of International Law and Practise at Princeton University.
  • Focus on the Global South
    Focus on the Global South is a program of development policy research, analysis and action. Focus engages in research, analysis, advocacy and grassroots capacity building on critical issues. It was founded in 1995 and is currently attached to the Chulalong ...
  • Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
    The FES has representation in 70 countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. It also has 33 offices in Western Europe, Japan, USA, CIS countries and Central and South-East Europe. In developing countires they seek to promote peace, democr ...
  • Fundación Arias para la Paz y el Progreso Humano
    The Arias Foundation is a private, non-profit organization registered in Costa Rica. Born in the transition toward peace in Central America, it is focused primarily on this region. It promotes dialogue as the best means of solving conflicts and differences ...
  • Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum
    The Fundación is the Rigoberta Menchú's institutional platform that guarantees the accomplishment and execution of the plans, programms and actions on behalf of Human Rights, native village's rights and the contributions to a politic solution of conflicts ...
  • Global Witness
    Global Witness exposes the corrupt exploitation of natural resources and the international trade systems, to drive campaigns that end impunity, resource-linked conflict, and human rights and environmental abuses. Natural resources could be the key to endin ...
  • Green Cross International
    Green Cross International was founded by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building on the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21. Green Cross is a non-governmental, non-profit organization. Our mission is to help create a sustainable future by cultiva ...
  • Greenpeace
    Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. As a global organisation, Greenpeace focuses on the most crucial worldwide threats to our planet's biodiversity and environment. Gre ...
  • Hague Appeal for Peace, The
    The Hague Appeal for Peace is an international network of individuals and organizations dedicated to sowing the seeds for the abolition of war through advocacy and training in peace education. HAP started in 1996 with the mission to organize the largest pe ...
  • Institute for Global Communications
    Beginning in 1987, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) played a formative role in bringing advanced communications technologies to grassroots organizations worldwide working for peace, human rights, environmental sustainability, women's rights, c ...
  • International Crisis Group
    The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.
  • International Federation of the Red Cross
    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, providing assistance without discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions. Founded in 1919, the ...
  • International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
    IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in 58 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war. To this end, IPPNW seeks to prevent all wars, to promote non-violent conf ...
  • Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
    CAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resi ...
  • Mayor Zaragoza, Federico
    Federico Mayor Zaragoza is a Spanish scholar and politician. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. During his 12 years as head of UNESCO (1987–1999) Mayor gave new life to the organization's mission to "build a bastion of peace in the ...
  • North-South Institute
    For more than 20 years, the North-South Institute (NSI) has built a reputation for sound research and analysis of Canadian foreign policy, offered an independent voice on the urgent importance of world development issues, and brought those issues before th ...
  • North-South Institute
    The North-South Institute (NSI) is dedicated to eradicating global poverty and enhancing social justice through research which promotes international cooperation, democratic governance, and conflict prevention. It is Canada’s first independent, non-governm ...
  • Pambazuka News
    Pambazuka news is a tool for progressive social change in Africa. It offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa. Pambazuka News is ...
  • Pugwash Conferences on World Affairs
    The purpose of the Pugwash Conferences is to bring together, from around the world, influential scholars and public figures concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions for global problems. Meeting in private as in ...
  • Small Arms Survey
    The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland established in 1999. The project comes at root of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons constitutes a thr ...
  • Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
    SIPRI seeks to conduct research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stab ...
  • Strategy Group
    Just as clear was the recognition that no longer could military power alone deliver peace. Urgently needed were radically new approaches to peacebuilding – approaches which relied first on the peacebuilding capacities of citizens in local communities. The ...
  • Transnational Foundation for Peace and Futur Research
    Founded in 1986 TFF is a networking organization who help people learn to handle conflicts with ever less violence against other human beings, other cultures and Nature. TFF constantly develops its intellectual resource base. Learning is the pillar of his ...
  • Transnational Institute
    The Transnational Institute was founded in 1974 as a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists. It was one of the first research institutes established to be transnational in name, composition, orientation and focus. In the spirit of public schol ...
  • University for Peace
    Never has the peace and security role of the United Nations been so important - or so complex. Recent upheavals in the Balkans, Africa, Timor and elsewhere have made clear the indispensable role of the United Nations in resolving conflicts. They have also ...
  • Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
    The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international membership organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect the ...
  • World Peace Centre
    World Peace Centre of MAEER's MIT, Pune, India was established formally on 1st December, 1996 and is a non-governmental, voluntary and non-profit organization devoted to the cause of protection of Human Rights, promotion of Culture of Peace and Democratic ...

Meetings

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  • Mediterranean Social Forum
    The Social Forum of Mediterranean was born in Barcelona, inspired by the Charter of Principles of the WSF. Its aim is to become a workspace plural cross, open to the different sensitivities, cultures, religions and peoples, to become an area of regional co ...
  • World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance
    Main issues: Racism, Intolerance, refuges, protection of minorities, migrants, ethnic conflicts Follow-up mechanisms:Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration
  • World Social Forum 2003
    The WSF 2003 brought together about 100 thousand people from all over the world. About 20 thousand delegates from 123 countries participated on the event. The core of the activities organized were included an amount of 10 conferences, 22 testimonials, 4 di ...
  • World Social Forum 2004
    In 2004, for the very first time the World Social forum took place outside Brazil. The decision was taken by the International Council as part of the process of promoting the WSF actual internationalization. The WSF 2004 counted on the presence of 74.126 ...
  • World Social Forum 2005
    In 2005 the world edition of WSF came back to Porto Alegre. It was formed a Brazilian Organizing Committee comprised by 23 organizations, subdivided into eight open WGs (Work Groups). The new methodology approved by the International Council in April 2004 ...
  • World Social Forum 2007
    The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...

Documents

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  • Assessing the United Nations after the Lebanon war of 2006
    Richard Falk's article about the Lebanon war on the summer of 2006. He gives some recomendations to the UN in order to stabilize the situation in this conflictive Middle East country.
  • Gaza: An Israeli Call for Urgent Action
    Document signed by several Israelian organizations asking to stop the Gaza Strip blockade.
  • Ha llegado la hora de la paz
    Artículo de Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami y S. Nair en “El País”, con propuestas de solución a los conflictos en Oriente Próximo (Palestina, Israel, Líbano, …).
  • L’heure de la paix est arrivée
    Article de Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami et S. Nair dans « El País », avec des propositions de solution aux conflits au Moyen-Orient (Palestine, Israël, le Liban, …).
  • Madrid Declaration
    Declaration of the First International Meeting on Peace Culture held in Madrid during december 2000.
  • Time for peace has come
    Article written by Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami and S. Nair in “El País”, proposing solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East (Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, …).
  • World Order after the Lebanon war
    Richard Falk's paper about the importance of the Lebanon war in the system.

Campaigns

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  • Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds
    The Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds is a coalition of human rights, religious, humanitarian, peace, and development groups committed to ending the trade in "conflict diamonds" and supporting human rights in diamond-producing countries in Africa.
  • Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
    The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

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