Alliance for Peacebuilding

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Sep 13, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$854,560

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), in collaboration with NAFSA: Association of International Educators and The Peace Alliance, has developed a four-year Strategic Communications Campaign to reclaim the narrative of peace and shift the peace and security conversation in America, prompting the country and policymakers to think about policies and practices that will make the world more secure as we emerge from a decade of perpetual war. The goal of the campaign is to influence how policymakers, including those in Congress, the executive branch, foreign policy agencies, and the military view peace as a key driver of stability. We seek to remind policymakers that peace is achievable and that peacebuilding offers powerful human security models that enhance the nation's security. This effort is not about making a choice between security and peace; it is about peace as a superior strategy and as a legitimate contributor to and objective of US national security.

Activity 3

The Peacebuilding Systems Project (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 includs multidimensional, highly adaptive, "wicked" problems that involve complex interrelationships among and between different social and environmental phenomena, like violence, provety, 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-lecel 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 analaysis and apply these tools to complex peacebuilding challenges.

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EIN

14-1870482