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After months of collaboration between groups of local peacebuilders, The Peacebuilders’ Manifesto is here! Our manifesto calls for a future where #peacebuilding is locally led and globally recognised. Join our movement by adding your voice and showing that you believe those on the ground know best. Let's unite for change! #PeaceStartsHere Discover more and #AddYourVoice 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZrzqjuc

🌟Join Our Online Course: "Working with Conflict" 🌟 Brought to you by the authors of 'Working in Conflict 2' and Peace Direct, don't miss our upcoming course, launching January 2025! ➡️https://ow.ly/vyCM50Sy2Pe 🌎Who Should Enrol: Practitioners and policymakers working in or across development, human rights, emergency relief, environmental and climate initiatives, democratic processes, or peacebuilding. Enrol today ➡️https://ow.ly/vyCM50Sy2Pe WHAT TO EXPECT: 🌊Deep dives into conflict resolution and violence prevention strategies 🤝Hands-on tools and skills for fostering peace, justice, and development 💡Fresh ideas about how to make creative use of (non-violent) conflict at all levels 📚Real-world case studies 💬Discussion with world-class experts and peers ✅The opportunity to apply this learning to your situation and get feedback Interested? Register now! ➡️https://ow.ly/vyCM50Sy2Pe #ConflictTransformation #OnlineLearning #Peacebuilding #ProfessionalDevelopment #JoinTheChange #Development #Climate #HumanRights #ConflictResolution #Nonviolence #Peace #Democracy

Check out the Stopping as Success (SAS+) Learning Hub for a curated list of resources from organizations across the development and humanitarian sectors that share good practice and helpful lessons to inform ongoing transition processes or strategy development. The Hub includes transition strategies, detailed roadmaps, stories of post-transition transformation, and other initiatives and databases that relate to transitions. Have a blog, resource, or initiative to share? Email rfogel@cdacollaborative.org to contribute to our growing list! https://lnkd.in/gdG3C_b8 Search for Common Ground ConnexUs CDA Collaborative Learning Projects

⏰Ahead of #HLPF2024 - don't miss our on our side-event! 📅 Wednesday 10 July - 2:30-4pm CEST / 8:30-10am EST. Register HERE: https://lnkd.in/ekyRxTaN

In our #PeaceStartsHere Manifesto #4, CENTRE PEACEBUILDING AROUND LOCAL PEOPLE, as a local peacebuilder dedicated to supporting internally displaced persons affected by armed conflict, I, along with my co-creators, strongly advocate for funders and donors to prioritize human-centered, collaborative, and community-led approaches in global peacebuilding efforts. It is imperative to empower local peacebuilders and challenge the dominance of external agendas in shaping peacebuilding initiatives. Global peacebuilding efforts often sideline local voices, particularly those of women and marginalized communities. To address this, we must decolonize the role of global actors in peacebuilding. This requires acknowledging and rectifying historical power imbalances, and placing local knowledge and leadership at the forefront of peacebuilding agendas, policies, strategies, and program designs. Investments and policies must be shaped by and for peacebuilding. We call upon international institutions, governments of the Global North, and NGOs to: 1. Prioritize existing indigenous and local solutions by first assessing local efforts, needs, and capacities before introducing external solutions, embracing the diversity and intersectionality of local peacebuilders. 2. Move away from traditional, often neo-colonial approaches such as "empowerment" and "capacity-building," recognizing and amplifying local capacities instead. 3. Include traditional institutions like elders’ councils in all conflict resolution and community cohesion efforts, promoting intergenerational dialogue and storytelling to highlight the contributions of young peacebuilders. 4. Invest in thorough analysis, time, and institutional knowledge to understand the complex factors and impacts of conflicts on communities, integrating this understanding into relevant strategies, agendas, policies, and program designs. Join the movement of local peacebuilders. Sign the Manifesto https://lnkd.in/gwvnRQ23

Discover the 2024 Voices of SDG16+. Each year in July, world leaders gather at the UN HLPF to assess the state of affairs of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. From the first time the goal on Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies was reviewed, the Voices of SDG16+ campaign was initiated to display videos showcasing extraordinary efforts being undertaken towards #SDG16 at local levels. Join us for a unique virtual event on 10 July and get inspired by stories bolstering action on SDG16+ in times of converging crises & amplifying the important work done by civil society. Together, let's make our voices heard for more sustained peace. https://lnkd.in/e-EFc3Qu Register here ➡️: https://lnkd.in/ebepTZcK  📆 Wednesday 10 July 08:30-10:00 EDT #VoicesofSDG16+ #Stories4GlobalAction #ActOnSDG16+ #VSDG16+ #2030Agenda #HLPF2024 #SDG16 #ActOnSDG16Plus #HLPF #SDGs #peace #justice #inclusion Alliance for Peacebuilding, Accountability Lab, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Life & Peace Institute, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, Peace Direct, TAP Network: Transparency, Accountability & Participation for the 2030 Agenda, World Vision, and Civil Society Platform for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (CSPPS)

In our #PeaceStartsHere Manifesto #4, CENTRE PEACEBUILDING AROUND LOCAL PEOPLE, as a local peacebuilder dedicated to supporting internally displaced persons affected by armed conflict, I, along with my co-creators, strongly advocate for funders and donors to prioritize human-centered, collaborative, and community-led approaches in global peacebuilding efforts. It is imperative to empower local peacebuilders and challenge the dominance of external agendas in shaping peacebuilding initiatives. Global peacebuilding efforts often sideline local voices, particularly those of women and marginalized communities. To address this, we must decolonize the role of global actors in peacebuilding. This requires acknowledging and rectifying historical power imbalances, and placing local knowledge and leadership at the forefront of peacebuilding agendas, policies, strategies, and program designs. Investments and policies must be shaped by and for peacebuilding. We call upon international institutions, governments of the Global North, and NGOs to: 1. Prioritize existing indigenous and local solutions by first assessing local efforts, needs, and capacities before introducing external solutions, embracing the diversity and intersectionality of local peacebuilders. 2. Move away from traditional, often neo-colonial approaches such as "empowerment" and "capacity-building," recognizing and amplifying local capacities instead. 3. Include traditional institutions like elders’ councils in all conflict resolution and community cohesion efforts, promoting intergenerational dialogue and storytelling to highlight the contributions of young peacebuilders. 4. Invest in thorough analysis, time, and institutional knowledge to understand the complex factors and impacts of conflicts on communities, integrating this understanding into relevant strategies, agendas, policies, and program designs. Join the movement of local peacebuilders. Sign the Manifesto https://lnkd.in/gwvnRQ23

Where does peace start for you? 📣 Le Sen and Diana Ishaqat attended International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) 's forum last month in #Albania Hear what some of the attendees had to say about where peace starts for them! Peace starts in different places for different people. In fact, the realities of where peace starts are as diverse as local peacebuilders themselves. So, we want to hear, where does peace start for you? Click here 👉 https://lnkd.in/epGf88Kg and let us know where where peace starts for you! #PeaceStartsHere

LISTEN: How to step aside to promote change We've all heard the calls to "work yourself out of a job" in order to shift power to more local leadership. In this podcast, hear from two people who actually did it. 🎧 https://ow.ly/NeiF50SsC4M Now that's much easier said than done. COMING SOON: Watch this space for practical tools from SAS+ on how to responsibly transition from international to local leadership. Search for Common Ground CDA Collaborative Learning Projects ConnexUs

Does your organisation speak truth to power? 📣    🗳️It’s Election Day in the UK. We always put the voices of local peacebuilders at the centre of our work. Will the next government do the same? Add your name to support the voices of local peacebuilders 👉 https://lnkd.in/eBM9U2gU 💬Tell us in the comments what you’d like to see from tomorrow’s UK government 👇 #PeaceStartsHere #PeacebuildersManifesto #GeneralElection2024