The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict is an international network of organisations working in conflict prevention and peacebuilding worldwide. The European Centre for Conflict Prevention currently hosts the Secretariat of the Global Partnership.
In addition to exploring the role of civil society networks in the prevention of armed conflict, GPPAC was founded to identify and implement mechanisms for interaction between and within the United Nations, governments, and civil society in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Since launching its Global Action Agenda in 2005, the scope of the network's activities has expanded considerably to include five main programmes which conduct their own major projects in the areas of Awareness Raising, Knowledge Generation and Sharing, Network Building, Early Warning and Early Response, and Interaction and Advocacy.
For more information on the Global Partnership and its programmes, please visit www.gppac.net.
The Global Partnership's timely response
"I urge NGOs with an interest in conflict prevention to organise an international conference of local, national and international NGOs on their role in conflict prevention and future interaction with the United Nations in this field."In response to this, the worldwide conflict prevention community joined together to form the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict and held a Global Conference on the Role of Civil Society in the Prevention of Armed Conflict and Peacebuilding at UN Headquarters in New York from 19-21 July 2005. Many sectors and disciplines working in conflict prevention were (and remain) involved, from the community level to the international level.
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his Report on the Prevention of Armed Conflict (2001)
We believe that there is no better time than now to build a multi-stakeholder network and create the desperately needed 'Shift to Prevention' that Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke of. Thus, one of the Global Partnership's main programming goals is to liaise with like-minded governments, regional organisations and UN agencies at national, regional and global levels to make conflict prevention and peacebuilding a sustainable and achievable objective.