Civil Society Support for Peace Efforts Endangered
The Peace Appeal Foundation joined the 1750 member US based Council on Foundations and 18 other US based organizations in filing a friend of the court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit..
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
Does the necessity of combating terrorism make permissible certain curtailments of freedom of speech?
Lebanon's National Dialogue.
With a national election in June 2009, political tensions in Lebanon are increasing. The National Dialogue has become the “safe space” to promote national unity, reconciliation, and a place to resolve key issues jointly.
The Dream of the Good is a peace and health methodology and a network project that has grown out of the charitable organization Det andra - in cooperation with The Peace Appeal Foundation - as a model for the development of a creative global peace education. The project engages principals, teachers, recreation leaders and preschool staff and supports them in introducing the methodology to students of all ages.
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) is one of the world’s leading institutions in the areas of security sector reform (SSR) and security sector governance (SSG).
The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.
In 2004, there were 230 political conflicts worldwide, including 3 wars and 33 severe crisis,
characterized by massive amounts of violence.
