Actors

67 results found.

• 11.11.11- Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement
  11.11.11 combines the efforts of 90 organizations and 375 committees of volunteers who work together to achieve one common goal:a fairer world without poverty. 11.11.11 was born on 11th November 1966 in which thousands of volunteers came out on the streets ...
• 2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum
  “2008 Japan G8 Summit NGO Forum” was formed in 31 January 2007, as a civil platform organized by Japanese NGOs’ broad coalition for 2008 G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido. As of 31 July 2007, 101 NGOs are affiliated with the forum. These NGOs are working on th ...
• Action for UN Renewal
  Although the United Nations has achieved much since its creation in 1945, changes are necessary to meet the needs of a changed world. Action for UN Renewal exists to promote an effective United Nations, with the authority and resources required to realise ...
• Advocacy for Women in Africa
  Advocacy for Women in Africa (AWA) was founded and incorporated in 1996 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, as a network for advocacy on women’s issues on the African continent. Ambassador Gertrude Mongella is one of the founder members and its President. The a ...
• 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 ...
• Arias Sánchez, Óscar
  Óscar Arias Sánchez was born in Heredia Costa Rica in 1941.He is the current President of Costa Rica and the first Nobel Laureate to be elected as a Latin American nation's president after winning the award. In 1987 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for hi ...
• Association for Progressive Communications
  The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) is an international network of civil society organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, th ...
• Ben Ami, Shlomo
  Former Israel Foreign Affairs minister.
• Better World Campaign
  Since 1999, BWC has worked to strengthen the relationship between the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. We encourage U.S. leadership to enhance the UN’s ability to carry out its invaluable international wo ...
• Caritas Internationalis
  Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas works without regard to c ...
• Center for War/Peace Studies
  The Center for War/Peace Studies is a US "think tank" located in the UN backyard. Its central objective is to establish an international political and legal system that makes possible the abolition of war. They have developed the Binding Triad System for g ...
• Centre for Global Studies
  The mission of the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) is to advance understanding and action on major global issues by civil society, the private sector, governments, and international institutions. The Centre focuses on issues in the three thematic areas of ...
• Chomsky, Noam
  Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguist ...
• Climate Action Network
  The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a worldwide network of over 340 Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. Diverse environmental o ...
• 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 ...
• Congress of South African Trade Unions
  COSATU was launched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. Their main broad strategic objectives have always been to improve material condi ...
• Democracy Coalition Project
  The Democracy Coalition Project is a nongovernmental organization that conducts research and advocacy relating to democracy promotion policies at the national, regional and global levels. It relies on an international network of civil society organizations ...
• Earth Charter
  The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental principles for building a just, sustanaible, and peaceful global society. It seeks to inspire in all peoples a sense of global interdependence and shared responsability for the well-being of the human famil ...
• 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 ...
• Franciscans International
  Franciscans International is a NGO with General Consultative status at the UN, uniting the voices of Franciscan brothers and sisters from around the world. We serve all Franciscans and the global community by bringing spiritual, ethical, and Franciscan val ...
• 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 Cultura de Paz
  The Culture of Peace is a set of values, attitudes and modes of behavior that reflect respect for life, human beings and human dignity. It gives top priority to human rights, rejection of any form of violence, and adherence to the principles of freedom, ju ...
• 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 Policy Forum
  Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice. GPF was founded in 199 ...
• Gorbachev, Mikhail
  Since 1992, the Honourable Mikhail Gorbachev is President, International Foundation for Socio-Economic and Political Studies (The Gorbachev Foundation) and President, Green Cross International. He is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1990), the Order ...
• 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 ...
• Halliday, Denis
  After a 34-year career with the UN (rising to the Assisstant Secretary-General level) he resigned in October 1998 to enable how to speak out publicly about the terrible impact of UN economic sanctions on the people of Iraq, gree from the constraints impose ...
• 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 NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
  INFID is an open and pluralistic network of NGOs from Indonesia and various memeber countries of the Consultative Group for Indonesia as well as of international organizations and individuals with an interest in and commitment to Indonesia. INFID endeavors ...
• International Peace Bureau
  The International Peace Bureau is the world´s oldest and most comprehensive international peace federation, bringing together people working for peace in many different sectors: not only pacifists but also women´s, youth, labour, religious and professional ...
• 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 ...
• International Women's Tribune Centre
  The International Women's Tribune Centre (IWTC) is an international non-governmental organization established in l976 following the United Nations International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. With a commitment to empowering people and buildi ...
• 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 ...
• Justice and Peace-Europe
  The European Justice and Peace Commissions form an international network. Their objective is to exchange information and to maintain contacts with Church organizations in Europe and at the global level as well as with public institutions. They have working ...
• Mandat International
  Mandat International and its welcome centre provide information, documentation, support and accommodation for international conferences and meetings in Geneva. It also works on issues such as NGO - UN cooperation, development, human rights, peace, humanita ...
• 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 ...
• Menchú Tum, Rigoberta
  Rigoberta Menchú Tum is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Quiché-Maya ethnic group. She was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince of Asturias Award in 1998. Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. On Monday, February 12, 2007, Menchú announ ...
• One World Trust
  The One World Trust is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The Trust was founded in 1951 by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for World Government. The One World Trust promotes education and re ...
• PAX Romana ICMICA/MIIC
  Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC is an international Association of Catholic professionals and intellectuals composed of local federations, groups and individuals. It works like a forum for intellectual sharing and dialogue among different cultures, generations and ...
• Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo
  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. After training as an architect and sculptor he was appointed Professor of Architecture. In 1974 he relinquished his teaching post in order to devote all his time and energy to the work of co-ordinatin ...
• 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 ...
• Ramos Horta, José
  The Nobel Peace Prize 1996. Born December 26th, 1949 in Dili, East Timor. Single with one son. Catholic. Living in Lisbon and Sydney.
• Reaching Critical Will
  The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) created the Reaching Critical Will project in 1999, in order to increase the quality and quantity of civil society at international disarmament fora, such as those that take place at the United ...
• Rotblat, Joseph
  The Nobel Peace Prize 1995. Born Warsaw, 4 November 1908 (British citizen since 1946). Educated at the Free University of Poland and the University of Warsaw, Poland.
• Servicio Paz y Cultura
  El Servicio de Paz y Justicia (Serpaj) es una organización social de inspiración cristiano - ecuménica que tiene como finalidad promover los valores de la Solidaridad y la No violencia e impulsar la construcción de una sociedad que se funde en el reconocim ...
• 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 ...
• Tavola della Pace
  La Tavola della Pace is an italian coordination experience to promote peace, human rights and solidarity. The Tavola is not only pretending to enforce politic actions but also stresses on peace movement trying to approach public opinion.
• TRANSCEND
  To work for peace is to work against violence; by analyzing its forms and causes, predicting in order to prevent, and then act preventively and curatively since peace relates to violence like health relates to illness. Particularly important is genocide, o ...
• 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 ...
• UBUNTU World Forum of Civil Society Networks
  UBUNTU's main objective is to unite and federate efforts, to build bridges of dialogue and communication amongst national and international institutions which are focused on promoting peace, endogenous development, dignity and human rights. NGO's, together ...
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
  UPC wishes to train good professionals which contribute to society progress as committed citizens with the environment, with the sustainability, with the solidarity amongst villages and to build upon a peace culture.
• 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 ...
• Women's Environment & Development Organization
  WEDO is an international organization that advocates for women’s equality in global policy. It seeks to empower women as decision makers to achieve economic, social and gender justice, a healthy, peaceful planet and human rights for all.
• World Civil Society Forum
  The project of the World Civil Society Forum was conceived initially during the Millennium Forum on UN reforms (May 2000, New York), which recalled the desire of the United Nations to work closely with civil society in its activities, as well as the reques ...
• World Federalist Movement
  The World Federalist Movement (WFM) is an international citizen's movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We call for an end to the rule of force, through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world inst ...
• 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 ...
• Yunus, Muhammad
  Dr. Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. He is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of ...

Meetings

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• 2005 World Summit
  The 2005 World Summit represented an oportunity to take decisions in the areas of development, security, human rights and the reform of the United Nations. The agenda was based on a attainable system of skirted suppliers in march by Secretary General Kofi ...
• 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 ...
• Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004
  The Forum was an event that brought together the various agents that comprise civil society. The Forum promoted dialogue with the aim of building a legacy at both local and international level. Three main themes defined the Forum: Cultural diversity, susta ...
• Universal Forum of Cultures Monterrey 2007
  The city of Monterrey (Mexico) held the Universal Forum of Cultures on 2007. On this occasion, the Forum promotes thinking and methods of problem solving in order to address global issues such as peace, education, knowledge and ecological conservation, amo ...
• Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the 21st century, Special Session of the General Assembly
  The main issues were: peace, gender equality and development.
• World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace, the 4th
  Main issues: The advancement and empowerment of women in relation to women's human rights, women and poverty, women and decision-making, the girl-child, violence againts women and other ares of concern. Follow-up mechanisms: Beinjing+5
• 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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• 2005 World Summit Outcome
  The Heads of State and the Government, reunited in New York from the 14th to the 16th of September 2005, solved to create a more pacific world, more prosperous and democratic and to undertake concrete measures to find ways to execute Millennium Summit and ...
• 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.
• Cairo Declaration for Peace in Darfur
  Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) has organized, in Cairo, on 11th and 12th of May, 2007, a regional workshop on "Peace in Darfur", aiming at guaranteeing the respect of human rights in Darfur province, the protection of civilians as well as means ...
• Economía de guerra
  Federico Mayor Zaragoza article, published in El País. He analizes the international system and its economic framework.
• Future belongs to all, The
  The Conference on the topic “From Global Warning to Global Policy” was convened by the World Political Forum and the Club of Rome and chaired by President Mikhail Gorbachev in Turin on March 28-29 2008. It gathered representatives from parliaments and othe ...
• 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.
• Peace Bureau deplores military spending rise, urges investments to counter poverty and climate change
  The International Peace Bureau has expressed profound concern at the announcement yesterday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute at the launch of its annual Yearbook that world military expenditures in 2006 reached a new high of $1204 bi ...
• 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, …).
• United Nations Millennium Declaration
  In 2000, 189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millenniu ...
• 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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• 50/50 Campaign
  The 50/50 campaign aims to get the balance right. Launched in New York on June 8, 2000, during the five year review of the Beijing Platform for Action, the campaign's goals are to increase the percentage of women in local and national politics worldwide. S ...
• 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.
• Climate Change
  For more than a century, people have relied on fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas for their energy needs. Now, worldwide, people and the environment are experiencing the consequences. Global warming, caused by burning fossil fuels, is the worst environ ...
• Darfur: la Población Civil Atrapada por la Violencia en Sudán
  Campaign to ask Sudan government to protect population and to make easy the UN troops deployment.
• International Campaign to Ban Landmines
  The International Campaign to Ban Landmines is committed to an international ban on the use, production, stockpiling, and sale, transfer, or export of antipersonnel landmines. The campaign, a global network of organisations working to eradicate antipersonn ...
• No to the death penalty
  This is a voice that rises from all over the world, stronger and stronger. Indeed the signatures collected for the appeal launched by the Community of Sant'Egidio at the dawn of the new century for a universal moratorium of all executions, were up to 5 mil ...
• Plant a Tree Campaign
  The global campaign "Plant a Tree for Peace," celebrating Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai and commemorating International Human Rights Day, was launched on November 19, 2004 to make the connection between the environment, peace, human rights and gende ...
• UNSGselection.org
  At the end of 2006 a new UN Secretary-General will be appointed at the conclusion of Kofi Annan's second five-year term in December. With over 15 peacekeeping operations around the world, continuing need for humanitarian assistance and a crucial process of ...

Agenda

Resources

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• PeaceBuilding Comission Update
  Created by the Institute for Global Policy, it's the site on the web dedicated to latest news and information about the UN Peacebuilding Commission. It keeps information about meetings at the UN, what’s happening in countries on the PBC agenda and how civi ...