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Partnership Spotlight: Fund for Peace
Fund for Peace (FFP) has been a valued peacebuilding and conflict resolution partner since 2011, helping to found and support the Partners for Peace (P4P) Network in Nigeria's Niger Delta. The network's mission is to build social capital around peacebuilding by amplifying the voices of positive actors and building a network of self-identified agents of peace. Initially a project designed to enable citizens to have a stake in peacebuilding, the network now has 11,372 active peace actors as of 2021. Fund for Peace is committed to amplifying the voices of those most strongly committed to peace and development and facilitating local peacebuilding efforts as a key strategy for promoting human security in the Niger Delta and elsewhere.
Together with Fund for Peace and P4P, we facilitated local discussions on conflict dynamics; built an information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure for knowledge sharing; designed an online Partners for Peace Network Peace Map with data; developed a text/SMS {short message service) platform for early warning and early response (EWER) with the Integrated Peace and Development Unit (IPDU); spearheaded the formation of the Peace and Security Working Group in Abuja, Nigeria that evolved into the Peace and Security Network (PSN); brought local-level conflict to the international policy community via roundtables; and built out our peacebuilding, capacity building, training, and technical support.
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Today, P4P has chapters in all nine states of the Niger Delta, with thousands of active, trained peace actors implementing peacebuilding initiatives that engage youth, address communal conflict, manage land disputes, and neutralize political tensions. Partners--like Fund for Peace--enable us to achieve the outstanding results that we see today, and so can you.
