The Africa Peace Festival is taking place in Accra, Ghana from June 30 until July 7, 2012. It is organized by the African Centre for Peacebuilding (AFCOPB) and the festival aims to provide a common platform for Africans and the global community to showcase their cultures and commitment towards promoting sustainable peace on the continent.
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Continue Reading →The conference ‘In Search of Peace: Dialogues between theories and practices’ will take place from October 20 to 24, 2012 in Linköping, Sweden. It is organized by the European Science Foundation (ESF) in partnership with Linköping University (LiU). The aim of the conference is to investigate peace as a process and the various forms in [...]
Continue Reading →On 27 June 2012, Metin Kazak MEP will open a conference in the European Parliament organised in conjunction with UNPO examining the current extent and forms of slavery across the world. Discussing cases from the Haratin in Mauritania to the human trafficking that afflicts Europe, the conference will raise awareness of contemporary slavery and, in [...]
Continue Reading →It is possible for organisations to apply for consultative status at The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (ECOSOC). There are currently over 3,400 organisations, including UNOY Peacebuilders, with consultative status and the number increases each year.
ECOSOC can grant a consultative status to international, regional, sub regional and national non-governmental, non-profit public [...]
Continue Reading →Education Association of China Tomorrow is hosting an intensive, interactive and international cultural program this summer for college and graduating high school seniors. The 2012 US-China International Youth Festival will take place from July 1 until 29 in Xi’an and Beijing, China.
Mission:
Promote people-to-people exchanges Make youth’s voice heard Call to action on Global [...]
Continue Reading →MasterPeace is a heartwarming global peace project, organized by young people in east and west, in co-creation with musicians, artists, peace workers, journalists, cities, companies and other members from the civil society: UNOY Peacebuilders is one of them. MasterPeace aims to involve people in peace building and wants to mobilize millions of people to do [...]
Continue Reading →The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) has developed a collaborative global peace events calendar which you can add to your organisation’s own website. You can also request your own events to be added to the calendar.
There are already over 80 events in the calendar and every time a new event is added it will [...]
Continue Reading →Rio+twenties is a youth-led voluntary organisation which aims to create a platform for active youth participation in the Rio +20 conference. They also want to help join forces between different projects and initiatives.
The website offers plenty of information that is useful for those wanting to learn more about or participate in the Rio [...]
Continue Reading →The United States Academy of Peace is offering four interactive online courses on issues related to conflict. Electronic certificates will be awarded for successfully completing a course. The courses currently cover the topics Conflict Analysis, Negotiation and Conflict Management, Interfaith Conflict Resolution and Introduction to OSCE.
You can find more information about the course contents [...]
Continue Reading →I just came from a very interesting event for the past 2 days. It is a meeting of the members of the Youth Sectoral Council which is an advisory body to the government’s anti-poverty policies and practices. It is an intensive discussion of the 4 main thematic priorities of the youth in the Philippines: [...]
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