because peace doesn’t just happen. we build it.
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While conflict exists everywhere, we do not have to accept that violent conflict is inevitable. The Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) robust, committed, and growing community proves that building peace is possible in faraway places and in neighborhoods just down the street. AfP is building and advancing the peacebuilding field to center peace in our policies, programs, and laws, as well as in our social norms, our relationships, and our narratives, through our new fieldbuilding strategy.
We are the Alliance for:
Accelerating collective action through collaboration and exchange
Advocating for policies, laws, and funding to advance the peacebuilding field
Developing an evidence base and standards of practice for better policies and practices and aligning the field on shared approaches
Shaping new narratives to develop and amplify effective peacebuilding messaging
Widespread violent conflict and fragility represent one of the most complex, urgent challenges facing the world. Today, there are more active conflicts than during World War II. In 2025, an estimated 305 million people will need humanitarian assistance due to violent conflict, weather-related and environmental emergencies, and other crises. The peacebuilding community is navigating a dramatically evolving conflict landscape, with declines in social cohesion and trust, environmental degradation, and rapid technological evolution driving unrest.
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), named the “number one influencer and change agent” among peacebuilding institutions worldwide, is an award-winning nonprofit and nonpartisan network of 225+ organizations working in 181 countries to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable peace. AfP cultivates a network to strengthen and advance the peacebuilding field, enabling peacebuilding organizations to achieve greater impact—tackling issues too large for any one organization to address alone.
AfP’s 200+ member organizations are working in 181 countries from 2020 - 2021
Vision
Our VISION is a world where each person feels secure, dignified, and included, a world where people build peace and manage conflict without violence.
Our Lines of Effort
Our fieldbuilding efforts are supported through our technical capacities in Policy & Advocacy, Learning & Evaluation, and Partnerships & Convenings.
POLICY & ADVOCACY:
AfP advocates and educates to ensure conflict prevention, violence reduction, and peacebuilding best practices and research correlate to better policies, legal frameworks, programming, and resources.
LEARNING & EVALUATION:
AfP leads the field to embrace a more adaptive and rigorous evaluative culture to collectively address MEL challenges, prove impact, and understand what works.
PARTNERSHIPS & CONVENINGS:
AfP forges strong cross-sectoral partnerships within and outside the peacebuilding field to expand our collective reach, advance multi-disciplinary learning, and elevate peacebuilding expertise and approaches on a global stage.