The Peacemakers Network is Delighted to Welcome Eight New Members and Supporters
April 2025
Confirmed by the Steering Group on March 25, 2025, these organizations bring unique perspectives and expertise to the Peacemakers Network as leaders in their religious and traditional communities. They have made tremendous contributions in advancing inclusive, sustainable peacebuilding within their communities. We look forward to working alongside them in our shared efforts to support inclusive, sustainable peace.
Members
Australia
Community First Development seeks to back the aspirations of First Peoples through community-led solutions. Established in 2000 to support First Nations communities, Community First Development provides support through research, monitoring and evaluation to determine best practices and outcomes for community-led solutions grounded in self-determination. Community First Development drives transformative and systematic change through culturally grounded and sustainable programs, and national and global advocacy.
Rwanda
GER-Rwanda is dedicated to fostering reconciliation, resolving conflicts, and improving community livelihoods by integrating peacebuilding and environmental sustainability. The organization firmly believes that a healthy environment plays a crucial role in supporting peaceful communities and strives to address the impacts of climate change while promoting environmental stewardship. GER-Rwanda emphasizes holistic transformation, understanding that peace and environmental well-being are deeply interconnected. GER-Rwanda‘s focus on peacebuilding extends beyond conflict resolution, aiming to build trust, understanding, and collaboration among communities that have experienced division or unrest. By engaging and empowering local communities and leaders, GER-Rwanda works to create a foundation for sustainable peace and environmental resilience in Rwanda, with a focus on addressing climate change, promoting responsible stewardship of the environment, building lasting peace and promoting community development.
Nigeria
The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR) promotes sustainable peace and prevents conflict through research, advocacy, and capacity building. IPCR is dedicated to empowering communities, fostering dialogue, and providing innovative solutions to conflict-related challenges in Nigeria and beyond. IPCR is committed to inclusivity, diversity, and the principles of do not harm, and strives to create a world where every individual can live in peace and dignity.
Nigeria
The Interfaith Mediation Centre (IMC) is dedicated to fostering peace, religious tolerance, and conflict resolution through interfaith dialogue, mediation, and community engagement. Our mission is to promote the emergence of a peaceful society through non-violent and strategic engagement in Nigeria and beyond. IMC envisions a developed society that is free of violent ethno-religious and socio-political conflicts. Our strategy focuses on grassroots peace interventions, training religious and traditional leaders, empowering youth and women in mediation, and facilitating early warning and early response mechanisms to prevent violence. Through their work across Nigeria and beyond, IMC actively implements locally led solutions to conflict, contributing to global peacebuilding efforts.
Israel
The Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue is a Jerusalem-based interreligious, peacebuilding organization. They believe that understanding, justice and equality will enable Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace, and envisions societies which embrace religious, ethnic and national diversity as an asset rather than a threat. Founded in 2006, the Rossing Center is a leading organization in the field of interreligious education and encounter, with a diverse Israeli-Palestinian staff of Jews, Christians and Muslims who engage over 10,000 individuals in activities each year. Their mission is to build the desire and capacity of Israelis and Palestinians to create truly shared societies for all groups and are working to achieve this by teaching skills and values of inclusivity within the Israeli education system, as well as engaging Jews and Arabs in mixed spaces.
Supporters
Pakistan
Ecumenical Commission for Human Development (ECHD), is an independent, Christian, ecumenical, advocacy, humanitarian relief and development agency, striving to work with ecumenical and secular partners to help rebuild after disasters and to empower local communities to find sustainable solutions to poverty, disease and injustice, irrespective of race, faith, color, age, sex, economic status, or political opinion. Ecumenical Commission for Human Development envisions “to build a world free from poverty, disease and injustice” by the love of God as manifested in Jesus Christ that brings about justice, peace and development for all. It seeks to realize this vision by carrying out its mission statement of working to raise awareness, develop, demonstrate and disseminate innovative programs to eliminate poverty, disease and injustice by providing information and resources to empower the poorest families, indigenous groups and marginalized communities to become self-reliant.
United States of America
For nearly 70 years, The Fund for Peace (FFP) has been a world leader in developing practical tools and approaches for reducing conflict. With a clear focus on the nexus of human security and economic development, FFP contributes to more peaceful and prosperous societies by engineering smarter methodologies and smarter partnerships. FFP empowers policymakers, practitioners, and populations with context-specific, data-driven applications to diagnose risks and vulnerabilities and to develop solutions through collective dialogue.
Nigeria
The Zaka Foundation for the Promotion of Peace and Dialogue fosters peaceful coexistence, religious harmony, and a better society for all with the concept of the “Common Good” in mind. Their vision is to create an atmosphere for peaceful coexistence governed by our common humanity.
Follow the Peacemakers Network on social