Svenska PostkodStiftelsen

Interpeace contributes to peace through professional conflict management

The Swedish Postcode Foundation supports Interpeace, an organization that acts to strengthen the capacities of societies to manage conflict in non-violent ways and to reinforce socio-political cohesion. Interpeace also assists the international community and the United Nations in playing a more effective role in supporting peace building efforts around the world.

Interpeace, which initially stated out as a UN pilot programme, is now an independent organization with substantial experience of conflict resolution. Among other things, the organization supported the reconciliation process in Rwanda by helping making the Genocide Commission operational and creating a new history curriculum for the national education system. Interpeace also supported the National Electoral Commission in Somaliland which resulted in the Horn of Africa’s first successful democratic transition of leadership in 2010.

Within this project Interpeace will select a number of professionals to be part of a special rapid response team ready to respond at short-notice to requests and opportunities to establish peace building processes in conflict-affected societies.

The team will consist of experts and advisers in peace and conflict management and they will in close cooperation with the conflict parties identify the solutions and compromises necessary to resolve the conflict. The team will also identify actors, accepted by both sides of the conflict, which will continue the peace process after the team has finished its mission.

Read more at www.interpeace.org.