Geneva Peace Week
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform Foundation
C/O DCAF, Maison de la Paix,
Chemin Eugène-Rigot 2E,
1202, Geneva, Switzerland
The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is a knowledge hub that connects the critical mass of peacebuilding actors, resources, and expertise in Geneva and worldwide. Founded in 2008, the Platform has a mandate to facilitate interaction on peacebuilding between different institutions and sectors, and to advance new knowledge and understanding of issues and contexts related building peace. It also plays a creative role in building bridges between International Geneva, the United Nations peacebuilding architecture in New York, and peacebuilding activities in the field. The Platform's network comprises more than 4'000 peacebuilding professionals working on building peace directly or indirectly. The Platform ensures the continuous exchange of information through seminars, consultations, and conferences, and facilitates outcome-oriented dialogues on peacebuilding practice.
Highlights
Our activities
The Platform works on a variety of projects and initiatives and responds to developments on evolving peacebuilding issues and practice.
The Platform is a convening space for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, experts, and different stakeholders to come together and exchange for the advancement of the field. It offers actors room to explore, innovate, and test out ideas in collaborations with others. These innovations come forward in spaces that are carefully created, facilitated and tended to.
The purpose of Community Management is three-fold: Foster inter-institutional collaboration Promote shared learning and innovation Mainstream certain peacebulding topics at the intersections of different sectors. The Platform has become an expert and reference in Community management, with the experience of galvanizing expertise on Environmental Peacebuilding for example.
Geneva Peace Week (GPW) is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar through which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics related to peace across contexts and disciplines. Geneva Peace Week offers an opportunity to connect and highlight the work of peacebuilders and to expand the space for each and every person, actor and institution that has a role to play in building peace and resolving conflict.