Global Action to Prevent War and Armed Conflict
GAPW Archive
Globalactionpw.org:
A Reboot and a Look Back
We are pleased to be launching this legacy site, thanks to the efforts of Ciprian Samoilă, in the hope of making clear that a quarter century + of our collective advocacy and monitoring was an investment worth making. We began this journey in 1999 with a trifecta of founders, a very generous core donor, and a vision of what the architecture of the United Nations might look like, indeed should look like if it is to fulfill its responsibilities for international peace and security.
The Global Action Program Statement, available below, was more compelling in the NGO world than in the diplomatic one, but it did interrogate the world of weapons and security systems and posited a key role for the UN and related multilateral institutions in promoting peace and human security which remain painfully elusive into this present moment… read more
Program Statement
Preventing armed violence and ending war
The GAPW Program Statement, last revised in 2009, grounds the goal of conflict prevention in specific, integrated phases of policy and action, demonstrating in a practical and concrete way how we can move from an international system based on conflict and power relations to one based on law and multilateral institutions.
The Program Statement is broken into three broad categories:
1. Strengthening multilateral mean of resolving conflicts, protecting human rights, and preventing armed conflict.
2. Reducing national military forces through a phased process of disarmament along with state commitments to a policy of defensive defense.
3. Supporting national peace and disarmament policies by helping to promote local initiatives to reduce the threat of armed conflict, protect civilians from mass violence, and ensure full participation by women in political life and peace policy.
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