Membership Benefits

Shape the Peacebuilding field

• Increase your organizational influence through collective advocacy and education with AfP members on behalf of the peacebuilding field to help shape innovative and game changing laws and policies and to push for robust peacebuilding funding.

• Collaborate with peers and policymakers to advance the peacebuilding field through AfP’s convenings including the Global Fragility Act Coalition, and working groups on Conflict Sensitivity and Integration, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE), Locally-Led Peacebuilding, Digital Peacebuilding, and U.S. Peace, Justice, and Democracy.

• Help set AfP’s strategic direction and policy-to-action priorities to address peacebuilding’s most critical issues, including organizational efforts to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Build Partnerships and strengthen your network

• Expand your reach and impact by leveraging AfP’s extensive network and platforms and by partnering with AfP on conferences, events, and campaigns.

• Join AfP’s regularly held advocacy meetings and private consultations with policymakers, bilateral and multilateral donors, and other key stakeholders.

• Engage with leaders in the field by attending and/or presenting at the premier annual peacebuilding event, PeaceCon. AfP members receive early access and enjoy discounted registration. In 2022, PeaceCon@10 featured more than 1,600 participants from 120 countries, representing a dynamic cross-section of civil society, donors, policymakers, lawmakers, philanthropy, the private sector, and academia. PeaceCon’s hashtag #RiseToBuildPeace reached over 20 million people.

Enhance your Organizational leadership capacity

• Receive unlimited memberships for your organization’s staff, gaining access to exclusive peacebuilding information and resources through our members-only newsletter, policy alerts, funding opportunities, working groups, AfP’s widely viewed Jobs Board, AfP’s Eirene Peacebuilding Database®, and off-the-record member consultations with policymakers and donors.

• Participate in the rollout of AfP’s new fieldbuilding strategy through exclusive member consultations, tailored skill-building and coaching sessions in policy development, advocacy, storytelling, and communications; mentorship opportunities; and organizational and leadership development training.

• Increase your visibility, positioning, and organizational profile by taking advantage of AfP-hosted sessions on DM&E, proposal development, and private sector engagement.

Amplify your impact

• Promote your organization’s events, news, job announcements, and publications through AfP’s influential platforms, including our website, original podcast, and Creativity in Crisis video series, 15,000+ listserv, and social media accounts reaching 65,000+ followers.

• Utilize AfP’s communications support offerings, including connections to media outlets, features on our Medium account, access to our media lists, and capacity-building trainings.

• Co-organize events with AfP and take advantage of our conference space in downtown Washington, DC for 40+ people. Our offices are one block from the Dupont Circle Metro and conveniently located near government buildings and many large international organizations’ headquarters.