Got an innovative approach to peacebuilding?

Global Peacebuilders is publishing a catalogue of local and international approaches to peacebuilding, and we are looking for effective, fresh and innovative approaches from organisations working to create the conditions for a sustainable peace in their area.

What is The Global Peacebuilders Peacebuilding Approaches Catalogue

The Global Peacebuilders Peacebuilding Approaches Catalogue will be a full-colour glossy publication offering an insight into the range of approaches and projects currently utilised locally and across the world in areas affected by a variety of conflicts.

We will translate every approach published within the catalogue into Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and circulate the completed publication to high-level recipients worldwide.

Send us your submissions for the catalogue now, and in return, we offer you a unique opportunity to:

• promote your peacebuilding activity on an international scale,
• raise awareness of the learning and expertise you have to share, and
• help shape a publication that will become a valuable educational resource for the worldwide peacebuilding community.

I take a unique approach to peacebuilding. How will I benefit by publishing it in the catalogue?

The catalogue will publish 18 snapshot approaches to peacebuilding locally and from across the world, and will give an illustration rather than a full explanation of each approach. This encourages readers to contact the peacebuilders behind the approaches in order to gain further details, and maximises your potential for increased attention to the work you are doing for peace. Specifically, you will:

• Publish an outline of your unique approach to peacebuilding
• Showcase your work to a worldwide audience
• Reach new markets and publicise your peacebuilding expertise
• Increase potential for new partnerships across language divides
• Help create a valuable learning resource

How to I publish my approach?

Submitting your approaches to Global Peacebuiders for potential publication in the catalogue is fast and easy. You do not have to write new material, or prepare a lengthy report of your work – simply fill in the short peacebuilding approaches catalogue submission form attached and return it by email to sarah@springboard-opps.org as soon as possible.

Every approach submitted will be assessed by a selection panel from the fields of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and peace research in Northern Ireland, and 18 final approaches will be selected for publication in the catalogue in January 2008.

You can also download the scoring framework that the selection panel will use to assess each approach – this will help you know the important criteria to meet when you complete your submission form.

About Global Peacebuilders

The Global Peacebuilders project is funded by the European Union’s Peace and Reconciliation Programme 2000-2006 under Measure 5.3 Developing Cross Border Reconciliation & Understanding and managed for the and managed for the Special European Union Programmes Body by the Cross-border Consortium.