Innovating across institutional and sectorial boundaries
Connecting Geneva, New York, and the field
Driving dialogues on cutting-edge peacebuilding issues
Providing an impartial space for interaction
Advancing new knowledge of peacebuilding contexts
Networking peacebuilding resources

The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is an inter-agency network that connects the critical mass of peacebuilding actors, resources, and expertise in Geneva and worldwide. Founded in 2008, the Platform has a mandate to facilitate interaction on peacebuilding between different institutions and sectors, and to advance new knowledge and understanding of peacebuilding issues and contexts. It also plays a creative role in building bridges between International Geneva, the United Nations peacebuilding architecture in New York, and peacebuilding activities in the field. The Platform's network comprises more than 2500 peacebuilding professionals and over 60 institutions working on peacebuilding directly or indirectly. As part of its 2012-2014 Programme, the Platform provides policy-relevant advice and services, ensures the continuous exchange of information through seminars, consultations, and conferences, and facilitates outcome-oriented peacebuilding dialogues in five focus areas.

The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is a joint project of four institutions: The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP), of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP); Interpeace; and the Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva (QUNO).

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Entry Points for a New Prevention Agenda: Connecting New York, Geneva and ‘At-Risk’ Contexts

This Brief aims to stimulate discussion about the opportunities and operationalization of a new prevention agenda that connects New York, Geneva, and ‘at-risk’ contexts. It presents a series of issues for discussion drawn from the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform’s work on prevention. The Brief underlines that it is time to enlarge the ‘prevention’ community beyond its traditional focus on ‘conflict prevention’, and that a comprehensive prevention agenda can make an important contribution to current high-level agenda setting processes.

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Voices for peace

Ambassador Jürg Lauber

"The 2012-2014 Programme represents a constructive framework to support the achievement of the Platform's mandate, and an important contribution to the networking of peacebuilding resources in International Geneva and worldwide"

Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Head, Political Division III, United Nations and other International Organizations,

Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs

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Connect now to the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, and link your activities and interests to a global network.

This membership is free of charge and will allow you to receive invitations to public events and other networking activities, including the Annual Meeting.

The Geneva Peacebuilding Guide

The Geneva Peacebuilding Guide maps the peacebuilding capacities and expertise of International Geneva.

There are currently over 60 organisations listed in the guide that can be browsed along a multitude of different categories.