Alliance for Peacebuilding

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Nov 15, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$1,119,754

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The Global Peace Index ranks the peacefulness of 158 nations using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators which gauge ongoing domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society and militarization. Members hope the ranking will encourage lower ranked countries to become more peaceful.

Activity 3

In early 2011, the Alliance for Peacebuilding launched the Peacebuilding Systems Project (PSP). PSP applies systems thinking to peacebuilding with the ultimate goal of strengthening the field's ability to learn effectively and efficiently how to best engage with the complex environments in which they work. Peacebuilders' work includes multidimensional, highly adaptive, "wicked" problems that involve complex interrelationships among and between different social and environmental phenomena, like violence, poverty, disasters, economic performance, public health, crime, inter-group relations, ecological damage, gender dynamics, political crises, and more. This complexity makes it very difficult to see how specific programs are affecting the larger system. Lasting, sustainable peace is not possible if we continue to try to create it through a series of uncoordinated micro-level interventions. The complex, multi-faceted nature of conflict requires correspondingly diverse and flexible responses. Seeing a conversion of all of our work, AfP partnered with multi-disciplinary teams from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, George Mason University the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Center for Global Health and Peacebuilding, Group W, and several leading academics and practitioners in the field of complexity, systems and conflict management on developing a Learning-Enabled Architecture for Peacebuilding (LEAP). LEAP will integrate field experience in using complexity tools with extensive knowledge in data analysis and apply these tools to complex peacebuilding challenges.

Filer

EIN

14-1870482