European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation

The European Centre for Conflict Prevention "is a non-governmental organisation that promotes effective conflict prevention and peacebuilding strategies, and actively supports and connects people working for peace worldwide."

"Since its inception in 1997, the European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP) has developed in new strategic directions and adapted, in accordance with its mandate, to fill crucial needs in the conflict prevention and peacebuilding community. Due to strong relationships with civil society organisations working on confl ict prevention in regions around the world built through our Searching for Peace and People Building Peace programmes, the work of the ECCP is increasingly global in reach.

"Our global work really began in earnest in 2003 when the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict was established with ECCP as initiator and International Secretariat. The Global Partnership fi lls a crucial need in the conflict prevention community by providing a universal platform for our collective work, and for engaging in capacity building, knowledge sharing and joint action across the regions."

• Recent Publication, Bridging the Divide – Peacebuilding in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Edited by Edy Kaufman, Walid Salem and Juliette Verhoeven [1]

Works with the Center for International Conflict Resolution.

Staff

Accessed September 2007:

• Peter van Tuijl, Executive Director
• Paul van Tongeren, Secretary General of GPPAC
• Goele Scheers, Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer
• Jasmin Nordien, Regional Coordinator Africa & GPPAC ISG Liaison
• Charlotte Crockett, Communications Officer
• Juliette Verhoeven, Coordinator Early Warning and Response; Middle East & North Africa and Central Asia Coordinator
• Kees Kolsteeg, Manager Finance
• Malin Brenk, Program Coordinator Knowledge Generation and Sharing and regional coordinator Balkans
• Marte Hellema, Regional Coordinator Asia Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean; Awareness Raising Officer
• Renske Heemskerk, Program Coordinator Interaction and Advocacy
• Walter Krabbenborg, Office Manager

Directors

Accessed September 2007:

• Jan Hoekema (chairman), Ambassador for international cultural relations at the Dutch MFA
• Menno Witteveen (treasurer), Managing Director of the Dutch Infrastructure Fund BV and Teasurer of the national board of the Dutch political party D66
• Bea Stolte van Empelen, formerly with SOH (Dutch Interchurch Aid), was actively involved in several Africa related peace building activities
• Ton Waarts, Former Director of NCDO, linked to several international networks, took part in the foundation of the ECCP
• Cees Homan, General-Major of the Marines (retired), advisor for the Netherlands Institute for International Relations
• Wouter Meijer, Former director of the World Population Foundation

International Steering Group

Accessed September 2007:

Regional Secretariats:

• Florence Mpaayei - Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa (NPI-A), Central and Eastern Africa
• Kwezi Mngqibisa - The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD), Southern Africa (Durban, South Africa)
• Emmanuel Bombande - West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), West Africa (Accra, Ghana)
• Adres Serbin - Regional Coordination for Economic and Social Research (CRIES), Latin America and the Caribbean (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• David Lord - Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee (CPCC), North America (Ottawa, Canada)
• Seth Nickinson - InterAction, US Steering Committee (Washington DC, USA)
• Rifaat Hussein - Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), South Asia (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
• Jone Dakuvula - Citizens Constitutional Forum, The Pacific (Suva, Fiji)
• Augusto N. Miclat, Jr. - Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID), Southeast Aisa (Davao City, Philippines)
• Yoshioka Tatsuya - Peace Boat, Northeast Asia (Tokyo, Japan)
• Raya Kadyrova - Foundation for Tolerance International (FTI), Central Asia (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)
• Samuel Rizk - The Forum for Development, Culture and Dialogue, Middle East and North Africa (Beirut, Lebanon)
• Andre Kamenshikov - Nonviolence International, Western Commonwealth of Independent States (Moscow, Russian Federation)
• Tina Gogueliani - International Center on Conflict and Negotiation (ICCN) The Caucasus (Tbilisi, Georgia)
• Tatjana Popovic - Nansen Network in the Balkans The Balkans (Belgrade, Serbia)

Other members:

• Johann Aufderklamm, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Ekkehard Forberg, World Vision International
• Nicole Deller, World Federalist Movement
• Ragnar Angeby, Folke Bernadotte Academy

Donors

In the past they have received funding from:

Governments

• Austrian Development Agency
• Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Dutch UNESCO commission
• French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• German Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Irish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• New Zealand Aid
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
• Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• UK Department for International Development

Foundations and Others

• Abraham Fund
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Compton Foundation
• Conflict Prevention Trust Fund
• Cordaid
• Ford Foundation
• Fred Foundation
• Heinrich Bol Foundation
• Karl Popper Foundation
• Kontakt der Kontinenten
• Meyer Swanteé Foundation
• NCDO
• Oxfam Novib
• Optimix Foundation
• Sasakawa Peace Foundation
• Slifka Foundation
• SVD Foundation
• Taiwan Foundation
• UNDP
• US Institute for Peace
• Van den Bergh van Heemstede Foundation
• Van Dijk Studieboeken
• William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
• World Vision International

Contact

Web: http://www.conflict-prevention.net

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch

• Sandra D. Melone
• Kevin Clements - Former Board Member
• Nonviolent Peaceforce: Member Organizations