Gombe Peace Project

PEACE DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN. WE BUILD IT. JOIN US! While conflict exists everywhere, we do not have to accept that violent conflict is inevitable. The Gombe Peace Project’s (GPP) robust, committed, and growing community proves that building peace is possible in faraway places and in neighborhoods just down the street. GPP 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 COALITION FOR: Accelerating collective action through collaboration and exchange Advocating for policies, laws, and funding to advance the peacebuilding field Creating standards of practice to align peacebuilding around common tools, frameworks, and approaches Developing an evidence base to ensure better policies and practices Shaping new narratives to develop and amplify effective peacebuilding messaging Ending violent conflict is one of the greatest and most urgent challenges of our times. Even before the war in Ukraine and its global tectonic shifts in peace and security, the world was experiencing a 30-year high in violent conflict. Conflict is also compounding the global pandemic, climate change, and food insecurity, and Russia’s cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns are destabilizing countries globally The Gombe Peace Project (GPP), named the “number one influencer and change agent” among peacebuilding institutions in the North, is an award-winning nonprofit and nonpartisan network of 100+ organizations working in 21 states to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable peace. GPP 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.