A Network of People Building Peace
28 April 2017GPPAC Signs Letter to the UN Secretary-General on United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
On 3 April, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonió Guterres presented his new report (A/71/858) to the General Assembly. In his report Guterres...
1 March 2017The Prevention Platform participated in the bi-annual training of new Peace and Development Advisors
On 16 February the Civil Society-UN Prevention Platform, co-facilitated by GPPAC and the Quaker UN Office in cooperation with UN Department of...
1 March 2017Global Call for Nominations SRSG; DSRSG at the UN
The UN Secretariat is launching a call for nominations to enlarge the pool of potential candidates for positions of Special Representative of the...
22 February 2017Relaunched website covers the UN Peacebuilding Commission
GPPAC and WFM-IGP are relaunching a new and improved version of the betterpeace.org website that covers the work of the UN's Peacebuilding Commission ...
15 February 2017GPPAC at the DPKO Workshop - 17 January 2017
On 18-20 January GPPAC participated in a retreat of the UN Department of Peacekeeping's Civil Affairs section in New York. Heads of the Civil Affairs...
11 January 2017New UN Secretary General outlines his strategy for sustaining peace: Prevention is in everyone’s interest
In his first public speech to the Security Council, the new Secretary General of the UN Antonio Guterres outlined his strategy in the area of peace...
21 November 2016GPPAC Director's Vision: The Road Ahead
Eleven years ago, civil society leaders from around the world had a vision: they would launch a global movement to create a paradigm shift in the way...
5 October 2015Filling the Gap: How civil society engagement can help the UN’s Peacebuilding Architecture meet its purpose
The purpose of this paper, published by GPPAC and the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO), is to evaluate the PBA's current engagement with civil...