- The Other
Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival
and Hope
- Photographers: Susan Meiselas, Sylvia Plachy, and Lekha
Singh
- Curators: Anna Lopriore
- Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
- Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Africa, Afghanistan,
Middle East, Colombia, South America
- Issues: Armed Combat, Children & Youth, Gender, Human
Rights, Peacebuilding, Public Health, Poverty
- Contra El Olvido:
Testaments on Colombia's Conflict
- Photographer: Jesus Abad Colorado
- Curator: Ellen Tolmie
- Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
- Region: Colombia, South America
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Peacebuilding, Poverty
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- Dance For Tolerance
- Focus: To break the vicious cycles of violence among
youth and promote positive social change through the
medium of dance.
- Region: U.S.A., North America, Colombia, Brazil,
South America
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Peacebuilding,
Poverty, Tolerance
- Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society
- Region: Kashmir, Asia
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Peacebuilding
- Mission Statement: The Srinagar-based Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, founded in 2000, is an amalgam of eight non-profit organizations working for the betterment of civil society in Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society was created with the goals of protecting international humanitarian law in Kashmir, promoting peace and democracy, taking a stand against militarization and violence, and resolving the Kashmir dispute as per the wishes of the people.
- Ethical Globalization Initiative
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: Our mission is to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy-making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage. We harness civil society, government, business, and economic forums to build awareness for our select issues of concern. We facilitate dialogues and relationships between decision makers and key stakeholders, particularly those most marginalized, to arrive at more transparent, ethical and responsible policies and joint actions to achieve change. We develop specific policy recommendations and seek to communicate our findings to key decision makers and the wider public.
- Education for Peace Institute of the Balkans
- Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe
- Issues: Conflict Resolution, Education, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: The main purpose of EFP-International and its sister Institutes is to develop and implement peace education programs in all parts of the world for all segments of human society. Through in-depth, systematic and sustained programs of Education for Peace (EFP), every generation of new leaders and citizens is equipped with the necessary insights and skills to decrease the occurrence and intensity of conflict to prevent its descent into violence and war. More importantly, they are then able to dedicate their talents and energies to the creation of a sustained and progressive culture of peace.
- Creative Exchange
- Region: UK, Europe
- Issues: Conflict Resolution, Media, Poverty, Public Health, Transitional
& Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Creative Exchange's activities help people connect
and share ideas and skills, learn about the use of culture and arts in social
settings, and change and influence policy and practice. Creative Exchange
projects are gathering knowledge about new ways of fighting poverty, conflict,
ill-health and injustice.
We focus on Culture as identity and values, and Arts as a way of expressing our identity and our ideas, and exploring opportunities for change. If culture is an important landscape for human development then the arts is the soundtrack - we need to understand how they are collectively contributing to our future and to resolving some of the challenges we face.
- Defense Democracies
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Armed Combat, Conflict Resolution, Tolerance
- Mission Statement: The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
(FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to
promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies
that drive terrorism. FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary
philanthropists and policymakers to engage in the worldwide war of ideas
and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism
and Militant Islamism.
FDD uniquely combines policy research, democracy training, strategic communications, and investigative journalism. We focus our efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the war of ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, and in the policy community, at home and abroad.
- Fundacion Escuelas de Paz
- Region: Colombia, South America
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: The Peace Schools Foundation is a collective project headed by a team of interdisciplinary professionals since October 1997. It is part of a national and international Network of institutions that work in for the promotion and disclosure of the Culture of Peace.