YE AR IN RE VIE W 2014

The Alliance for Peacebuilding would like to thank our institutional

donors, as well as our board members and members of our

community who give so generously to make our work possible.

JOHN M. KOHLER

FOUNDATION

A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

A Global Movement

INTRODUCTION

The Evolution of Peace

Innovative Collaborations

PEACEBUILDING 3.0

Peace is a simple idea,

but a complex reality

A growing number of our

members come to us from

outside the traditional

peacebuilding field,

representing the varied

perspectives necessary to

create resilient peace.

Convening the Field

Peace is more than

simply the absence

of war:

peace is a positive concept,

integrating structural and

process elements that can be

built, measured, and tailored

to fit the infinitely changing

needs of societies in

transition.

Shaping the Conversation

A First-Ever Human

Security Curriculum

HUMAN SECURITY

“Security doesn’t

land in a helicopter.

It grows from the

ground up.”

“A strategy of peace is

superior to a national security

strategy because peace is

innately more strategic than

security. It lends to more

appropriate comprehensive,

collaborative, connective, and

coordinated approaches to

the whole-of-society

challenges and opportunities

of our times.”

–Christopher Holshek and

Melanie Greenberg, Toward a

New Strategy of Peace

A Civil-Military-Police Handbook for Human Security

A Year of Challenge and Growth

THE NEW DEAL FOR ENGAGEMENT IN FRAGILE STATES

“Responsive and accountable

institutions of governance

are critical to overcoming

the sense of injustice,

vulnerability and exclusion

that can fuel social

discontent.”

-UN Development Program Human

Development Report, 2014

The Civil Society Platform for

Peacebuilding and Statebuilding What is Fragility?

Bringing Civil Society Voices

to the Fore

POLICYMAKER ENGAGEMENT

A real victory for the

peacebuilding community —

and the world — is the

inclusion of a whole stream

of work on peaceful and just

societies. The recognition

that development cannot

occur without peace is a

central theme of the new

SDGs, and a breakthrough in

creating a holistic set of

goals.

Mali Moving Forward

Conflict Prevention and

Resolution Forum

Convening the Field

Building Peace: Telling the

Story of Peacebuilding

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS & STORYTELLING

Storytelling at the

2014 Annual Conference

The overall level of violence

against women was a better

predictor of state peacefulness,

compliance with international

treaty obligations, and relations

with neighboring countries than

indicators measuring the level

of democracy, level of wealth,

and civilizational identity of the

state.”

--Valerie M. Hudson, Building

Peace Issue 3: Women, Men, and

Peace

Leading the Community

LEARNING AND EVALUATION

AfP is leading our community

to establish the kind of rigor in

peacebuilding that we see in

related fields, such as public health

and the environment, to ensure

that peace moves beyond an idea

into reality.

Inter-religious Peacebuilding

Global Learning

Have We Made the World

More Peaceful?

“Grantmakers have long

wrestled with the challenge of

evaluating the impact of the

projects they support. This is

especially true in the inherently

complex and multidimensional

peacebuilding field, which often

deals, literally, with matters of

life and death. The PEC has

broken new ground in this field,

and provided invaluable

assistance to both practitioners

and grantmakers, alike, in their

efforts to promote peace,”

- Stephen Del Rosso, Program

Director, International Peace and

Security, International Program,

Carnegie Corporation

Three Goals

MEMBERSHIP

New Organizational Members: International Storytelling Center • International Peace and Conflict Resolution Program,

Arcadia University • Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) •

GHR Foundation • International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) • Center for Civilians in

Conflict • SIL International • Conservation International • FHI 360 • International Peace &

Security Institute (IPSI) • OneVoice Movement • Institute for Integrated Transitions • El-Hibri

Foundation • American Friends of the Parents Circle • Fund for Peace • The Nexus Fund •

Friends Committee On National Legislation (FCNL) • Crisis Management Initiative/Martti

Ahtisaari Centre • Frank P. Zeidler Center for Public Discussion • Minnesota Peacebuilding

Leadership Institute • Communities in Transition • The Contact Project • Salam Institute for

Peace and Justice