Alliance For Peacebuilding
Because peace doesn't just happen. We build it.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
No single organization, approach, or broad strategy can solve complex social challenges alone, but collective action by a strong and united network can work together to demand, develop, innovate, and produce profound change. To achieve the bold vision of a more just, secure, and inclusive future, AfP’s 10-year Fieldbuilding Strategy is critical to building and improving the overall infrastructure of the peacebuilding field by uniting the field on common purpose, standards, evidenced-based learning, new narratives, and building global champions and securing much-needed resources.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Learning & Evidence
AfP leads the field to embrace a more adaptive and rigorous evaluative culture to collectively address Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) challenges, prove impact, and understand what works.
Peacebuilding Mapping
The Peacebuilding Mapping Project seeks to map the principles and parameters of the peacebuilding field (primarily among US organizations), and to study how peacebuilding intersects with related fields such as development, humanitarian assistance, human rights, religion, environment, health, democracy building, etc. We feel that examining these intersections will allow us to develop creative partnerships and more effective programming.
Policymaker Engagement
Fostering understanding of conflict prevention and peacebuilding in the US government by bringing the voices of civil society from around the world to policymakers in Washington.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
InterAction - Member 2015
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of grants received
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Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of donors retained
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Direction of Success
Holding steady
Number of new donors
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Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The overall goal of AfP’s new Fieldbuilding Strategy is to strengthen and advance the peacebuilding field so we can achieve more significant impact by tackling issues too large for any one organization to address alone.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To advance and strengthen the peacebuilding field, AfP’s Fieldbuilding Strategy elevates the following strategic priorities:
• Accelerating collective action through collaboration and exchange
• Advocating for policies, laws, and funding to advance the peacebuilding field;
• Creating standards of practice to align peacebuilding around common tools, frameworks, and approaches
• Developing an evidence base to ensure better policies and practices
• Shaping new narratives to develop and amplify effective peacebuilding messaging
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
A strategy is only as good as the implementation and AfP has the experience and platform to successfully implement this ambitious strategy. AfP is advancing this strategy through its integrated technical capacities of Learning & Evidence, Partnerships & Convening, and Policy & Advocacy. AfP is also working on growing its communications reach to amplify its messaging to new audiences through social and traditional media and creative campaigns. These technical capacities are mutually beneficial but have not always been integrated, and AfP is dedicated to building greater capacity across our technical capacities and within to break down silos and scale impact.
Learning & Evidence: AfP leads the field to embrace a more adaptive and rigorous evaluative culture to collectively address Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) challenges, prove impact, and understand what works.
Partnerships & Convenings: AfP forges strong cross-sectoral partnerships within and outside the peacebuilding field to expand our collective reach, advance multi-disciplinary learning, and elevate peacebuilding expertise and approaches on a global stage.
Policy & Advocacy: AfP advocates and educates to ensure conflict and atrocities prevention, violence reduction, and peacebuilding best practices and research correlate to better policies, legal frameworks, programming, and resources.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Over more than two decades, AfP has grown into a strong nonpartisan network representing over 190 organizations and 30,000+ global peacebuilders in 181 countries working to end violent conflict and build sustainable peace across 32 different areas of expertise.
The peacebuilding field has come a long way from our early beginnings. In the 1990s, peacebuilding was not a recognized term, and the field struggled to prove its impact. Today, however, we have created a cadre of robust peacebuilding policy and lawmaker global champions. We have successfully advocated for adopting the game-changing Global Fragility Act (GFA), and other policies, including the U.N. Sustainable Peace Agenda and the World Bank Fragility, Conflict, and Violence Strategy. We have made strides at the sector level by successfully making the case that COVID-19 is more than a health crisis and that climate change and conflict are compounding crises. We are also moving toward evidence-based standards, as reflected in AfP’s expanded and digitized Eirene Peacebuilding Database®, so that policymakers and organizations can ensure better evidence correlates to better programming and policies.
We are also able to mobilize collective action through on and off-the-record convenings at the highest policymaker levels globally. PeaceCon 2022, in partnership with USIP, grew from a small retreat of a few peacebuilding leaders to now, over a decade later, a gathering of 1,600+ participants from 120 countries, representing a dynamic cross-section of civil society, bilateral and multilateral donors, policymakers, lawmakers, philanthropy, the private sector, and academia. PeaceCon@10’s hashtag #RiseToBuildPeace had over 21 million social media impressions, demonstrating AfP’s global influence and reach. AfP and its members, through groundbreaking narrative research, are working on rebranding and reframing peacebuilding that makes the case that it is active, interconnected, and possible.
While we have come a long way in more than two decades, much work remains. This robust, committed, and growing community proves that violent conflict is not inevitable and building peace is possible in faraway places and in neighborhoods just down the street. Even before the war in Ukraine, violent conflict globally reached a 30-year high in 2018.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Alliance For Peacebuilding
Board of directorsas of 07/06/2023
Ms. Julia Roig
The Horizons Project
Term: 2021 - 2023
Julia Roig
Horizons Project
Dave Loew
Ogilvy & Mather
Debbie Kennedy-Iraheta
fhi360
Charlie Bolden
Bolden Group
Alan Fitts
American Express
Aleksander Dardeli
IREX
Nic Hailey
International Alert
Mark Fowler
Tanenbaum
Allison Poyac-Clarkin
MSI
Juliette Shedd
GMU
Sonya Reines-Djivanides
EPLO
Rebecca Crall
Rotary International
’Kemi Okenyodo
Rule of Law and Empowerment Initiative/Partners Nigeria
Joel Rubin
National Peace Corps Association
Judy Dunbar
Converse
Shaila Gupta
Luminate
Diana Walker
Brunswick
Miguel Diaz
Loyola University
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Board orientation and education
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CEO oversight
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Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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