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Organization: Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace (GA)
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Postal address of organization/institution

45 Cambridge St., Victoria, BC, Canada V8V 4A7 (temporary)

E-mail address of organization/institution

info@mfp-dop.org

Website address of organization/institution

www.mfp-dop.org

Telephone of organization/institution

(1) 250-383-5878

PRIORITIES: All of the organization's domains of culture of peace activity

EDUCATION FOR PEACE
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
HUMAN RIGHTS
EQUALITY BETWEEN WOMEN AND MEN
DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION
UNDERSTANDING, TOLERANCE AND SOLIDARITY
FREE FLOW OF INFORMATION
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

TOP PRIORITY: The organization's most important culture of peace activity

INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY

PARTNERSHIPS AND NETWORKS: What partnerships and networks does your organization participate in, thus strengthening the global movement for a culture of peace?

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR THE PREVENTION OF ARMED CONFLICT (GPPAC)
DEPARTMENT OF PEACE OPERATIONS ((PATRIR - ROMANIAN PEACE INSTITUTE),
MAYORS FOR PEACE,
OPERATION PEACE THROUGH UNITY

ACTIONS: What activities have been undertaken by your organization to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence during the ten years of the Decade? If you already made a report in 2005, your information from 2005 will be included in the 2010 report.

Expanded our country membership from 14 in 2005 to over 35 in 2010 now spanning 5 continents; held 4 increasingly large and focused Summits in the UK, Canada, Japan and Costa Rica; individual country participation in the UN International Days of Peace and Nonviolence; campaign for a resolution to the UN General Assembly calling for ministries and departments of peace, or other infrastructures of peace, in all countries; promoting the formation of national peace academies, national commissions on peace and civilian peace services to function both domestically and abroad


Participants at the 2009 Summit of the Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments for Peace outside Costa Rica's National Theater
photo courtesy of Kathleen Burke

PROGRESS: Has your organization seen progress toward a culture of peace and nonviolence in your domain of action and in your constituency during the second half of the Decade?

3 countries now have Ministers of Peace, Nepal, Costa Rica and Solomon Islands and many others have related infrastructures for peace: our membership now exceeds 35 countries; our 2009 Summit was officially sponsored by the Republic of Costa Rica, the first time a government has done so; the US and Canada have pending legislation for departments of peace; participation in the movement for national academies of peace (Costa Rica, US, Denmark); formation of the African Alliance for Peace (AAP) influencing policy of national governments, e.g. the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Conflict Issues, convened by Ministry for Peace UK

OBSTACLES: Has your organization faced any obstacles to implementing the culture of peace and nonviolence? If so, what were they?

Lack of human and financial resources to further our work; resistance from national governments

PLANS: What new engagements are planned by your organization in the short, medium and long term to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence?

Focus on Africa through the African Alliance for Peace’s (AAP) 2010 conference and holding the next Global Alliance Summit in Capetown, S. Africa, Fall 2011; strengthening our networking tools to assist each country to further their initiatives for departments of peace; furthering the campaign for a UN resolution referred to above

GLOBAL MOVEMENT: How do you think the culture of peace and nonviolence could be strengthened and supported at the world level??

Through our continued campaigning for ministries and departments of peace in all nations with cabinet-level ministers of peace; strengthening national culture of peace initiatives, especially those emerging from civil society, e.g. the restorative justice movement; passing of a UN resolution calling for infrastructures of peace in all member countries
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Organization: Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace (GA)

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