In North America, there are two Regional Initiators. In Canada, GPPAC is coordinated by the Peacebuild, and in the United States, The Alliance for Peacebuilding is the Regional Secretariat. For more information on GPPAC in the region contact:

Mr. David Lord

Peacebuild: The Canadian Peacebuilding Network

1, Nicholas Street #1216

Ottawa, ON  K1N 7B7

Canada
Tel: (613) 241-3446

Fax: (613) 241-4846
E-mail: info@peacebuild.ca

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In North America, there are two Regional Initiators. The Canadian Conflict Prevention Initiative (CCPI) is coordinating the Global Partnership's programme in Canada. This is an initiative of the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee (CPCC), a network of Canadian NGOs and institutions, academics and individuals engaged in activities to address the causes and consequences of violent conflict. The CCPI was formed to take advantage of this opportunity to deepen the debate on conflict prevention and enhance conflict prevention networks not only at the global level, but also at the national level.

The key activities identified for the CCPI include:

• building stronger conflict prevention networks at the national, regional and global levels;
• discussing mainstreaming conflict prevention policies with the Canadian government;
• collaborating to develop field-based conflict prevention partnerships in selected southern countries;
• researching the activities of Canadian organizations working on conflict prevention and other applied research;
• and, communicating to schools and colleges, and through the media and the Internet.

Two years ago, the Alliance for International Conflict Prevention and Resolution agreed to convene a U.S. Steering Committee. For the past year, InterAction has helped the Committee convene national and regional consultations on the Global Partnership. The Committee is illustrative of the myriad stakeholders in prevention and peace, with more than 30 representatives from sectors such as conflict resolution, relief and development, academia and think tanks.

In November 2004, InterAction and the Conflict Prevention Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars hosted a consultation with a broad range of civil society stakeholders to gather input for the U.S. contribution to the Global Action Agenda for the Prevention of Armed Conflict. Output from that meeting was combined with the results of an extensive electronic feedback process to draft a U.S. Action Agenda for the Prevention of Violent Conflict. This document served as the U.S. contribution for a regional consultation held in Ottawa in December 2004. The process of meshing three distinct action agendas produced in the U.S., Canada and Mexico got underway at this consultation and was recently concluded through an iterative process of drafting and feedback at the regional and national level. Find a the final North America Regional Action Agenda here.