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Finland
CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation
CMI – Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation is an independent Finnish organisation that works to prevent and resolve conflicts through dialogue and mediation. Founded in 2000 by Nobel Peace Laureate and former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, we have since grown to be a leader in the field of international peacemaking.
Peace Education Institute
The Peace Education Institute is a Finnish, politically non-aligned peace organization for educators who work in formal and non-formal education settings. In practice, this means teachers, youth workers or activists who are interested in creating safer, more inclusive and equal spaces in their work and in wider society. Our work is guided by four themes that are peace, anti-racism, equality & equity, and global citizenship.
Rauhanliitto
The Peace Union of Finland is an umbrella organisation for several Finnish Peace associations. We work with a whole range of peace and disarmament issues by lobbying and advocating for Finnish Government and The European Union of peace policies. We offer peace education at our Peace School programme. We also maintain the Peace Station, a centre for peace activism and advocacy in Helsinki. The Peace Union of Finland is a member of the International Peace Bureau (IPB). We work with several international campaigns and follow a number of arms control and disarmament issues.
Tampere Peace Research Institute
The Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), is a multidisciplinary and international research centre whose mission is to conduct high quality research on the causes of war, on non-violent resolution of conflicts, and on conditions for peace. In accordance with the present research agenda, the focus of TAPRI’s research is peaceful change.
France
Institut Pour la Paix
L'Institut Pour la Paix is a laboratory at the interface of academic research and practice, which offers an innovative way of producing knowledge about peace. The IPP is an initiative driven by researchers with multidisciplinary backgrounds who study peace. Its unique character lies in the dialogue between its academic foundation and the military, political, and activist spheres, in the form of a research and action-research space that seeks to explore and better understand each other's spheres of action. The IPP also aims to be a space that develops new educational content that approaches peace from the broader perspective of the transformations of conflicts. This original approach in France embodies a positive project for transforming the ways in which peace can be worked on (and built), by promoting a space for listening, exchange, and dialogue between spheres that have developed in isolation.
Germany
Institute for Development and Peace
The Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) is a research institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen and combines basic scientific research with application-oriented research and policy advice at the interface of development and peace research. INEF was established in 1990 to scientifically support the work of the Development and Peace Foundation (sef:), Bonn, which is still one of our closest co-operation partners. INEF’s work focuses on processes of global governance, particularly in relation to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The spectrum of our research includes projects on the human rights responsibility of business, on shaping a future sustainable development agenda, on transformation and democratisation processes and the study of non-violent forms of conflict resolution.
Berghof Foundation
The Berghof Foundation is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation supporting people in conflict in their efforts to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation and peacebuilding.
Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies
As an independent, non-profit organization, BICC (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies) deals with a wide range of global topics in the field of peace and conflict research. Our vision is a more peaceful world. Our mission is to conduct critical, problem-oriented, policy relevant research in response to the problems posed by organized violence. To do so, we engage in active exchanges with scholars and politicians as well as stakeholders in everyday practice and civil society. As a think tank, BICC seeks to engage in a dialogue with NGOs, governments, private organizations, research institutes and universities and well as with interested individuals.
For Peace
For Peace is a holistic initiative to co-create a global culture of peace, positioned at the intersection of personal development and societal transformation. We imagine a world beyond separation, injustice, and violence, where all of us have the possibility to fulfill our unique potential and experience the joyful gift of the interconnectedness of all life.
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
The Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) was founded in 1971 and is an independent entity operating as a civil law foundation. According to the charter, the aim of the institute’s work is to address security policy problems within the framework of peace research and, in doing so, fulfil the criteria for independent research and instruction, advancement of early career scholars and the publicising of research findings.
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