Call for Submissions : Global Peacebuilders Peacebuilding Approaches Catalogue

Got an innovative approach to peacebuilding?

Want to publish your approaches and turn the world’s attention to what you’re doing for peace?

Global Peacebuilders is publishing a catalogue of worldwide approaches to peacebuilding, and we are looking for effective, fresh and innovative approaches from organisations working to create the conditions for a sustainable peace in their area.

The Global Peacebuilders Peacebuilding Approaches Catalogue will be a full-colour glossy publication offering an insight into the range of approaches and projects currently utilised across the world in areas affected by a variety of conflicts. We will translate every approach published within the catalogue into Arabic, English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and circulate the completed publication to high-level recipients worldwide.

Send us your submissions for the catalogue now, and in return, we offer you a unique opportunity to promote your peacebuilding activity on an international scale, raise awareness of the learning and expertise you have to share, and help shape a publication that will become a valuable educational resource for the worldwide peacebuilding community.

I take a unique approach to peacebuilding. How will I benefit by publishing it in the catalogue?

The catalogue will publish 20 snapshot approaches to peacebuilding from across the world, and will give an illustration rather than a full explanation of each approach. This encourages readers to contact the peacebuilders behind the approaches in order to gain further details, and maximises your potential for increased attention to the work you are doing for peace.

Specifically, you will:

· Publish an outline of your unique approach to peacebuilding
· Showcase your work to a worldwide audience
· Reach new markets and publicise your peacebuilding expertise
· Increase potential for new partnerships across language divides
· Help create a valuable learning resource

How to I publish my approach?

Submitting your approaches to Global Peacebuilders for potential publication in the catalogue is fast and easy. You do not have to write new material, or prepare a lengthy report of your work – simply fill in the short submission form and return it by email to sarah@springboard-opps.org

Every approach submitted will be assessed by a Selection Panel of experts from the fields of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and peace research in Northern Ireland, and 20 final approaches will be selected for publication in the catalogue in January 2008.

Also available is a document outlining the scoring framework that the selection panel will use to assess each approach– this will help to know the important criteria to meet when you complete the submission form.

The Global Peacebuilders project is funded by the European Union’s Peace and Reconciliation Programme 2000-2006 under Measure 5.3 Developing Cross Border Reconciliation & Understanding and managed for the and managed for the Special European Union Programmes Body by the Cross-border Consortium.

Contact details:
Sarah Maitland
Project Coordinator
Global Peacebuilders
+44 (0)28 9031 5111
sarah@springboard-opps.org
www.springboard-opps.org

Notes to Editors:
Global Peacebuilders is a project of Springboard Opportunities Limited. Established in 1992, Springboard is a non-profit organisation with charitable status based in Belfast. During the last 15 years Springboard has offered integrated programmes that promote mutual understanding and enhance capacity. Springboard delivers the Wider Horizons initiative where young adults jointly participate in local and international programmes that promote an appreciation of diversity, build capacity through personal and professional development and provide understanding of global citizenship. The initiative is funded by the International Fund for Ireland, Department for Employment & Learning and FAS.