PeaceNexus is a Swiss private foundation that aims to strengthen the capacities of and collaboration between organisations to increase their contribution to reducing violence and building peace.

Based across Switzerland, West Africa, Central Asia, South East Asia and the Western Balkans, our team of 20 works with local partners who are well positioned to address specific conflict risks. We also support international organisations that are active in fragile states and are well positioned to contribute to social cohesion and peacebuilding, by supporting local initiatives or by shaping national and international policy.

Environmental peacebuilding integrates natural resource management in conflict prevention, mitigation, resolution, and recovery to build resilience in communities affected by conflict. Join the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (also known as EnPAx™) comprising researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to share experiences and lessons from managing natural resources in conflict-affected settings, access new research on the topic, and participate in events to support the growing network of professionals active in environmental peacebuilding.

The Geneva Peacebuilding Platform is a knowledge hub that connects the critical mass of peacebuilding actors, resources, and expertise in Geneva and worldwide. Founded in 2008, the Platform has a mandate to facilitate interaction on peacebuilding between different institutions and sectors, and to advance new knowledge and understanding of issues and contexts related building peace.

As part of its mandate on community management, the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform aims to strengthen networking and community building in different topics within the peacebuilding sector. The Geneva Dialogue on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace aims to foster inter-institutional collaboration and dialogue, promote shared learning and innovation, and mainstream these topics across the board between the environment, climate, conservation, conflict, security, and peace sectors.

IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organisations and the input of more than 18,000 experts.

Conflict and conservation focuses on armed conflict and nature. The theme is highly timely as armed conflicts cause great economic and social harm, as well as environmental damage around the world. Conflicts have stretched societies to their limits in terms of financial and human resources. Lives and property have been lost and disrupted, livelihoods destroyed, and people displaced. This is the first report in the IUCN flagship report series Nature in a Globalised World. The purpose of this series is to help bring the importance of nature conservation into mainstream political and economic decision-making.

SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public. Based in Stockholm, SIPRI is regularly ranked among the most respected think tanks worldwide.

SIPRI's Environment of Peace initiative aims to raise understanding of how climate change and other environmental crises are transforming what it means to build and maintain peace. Based on the best available evidence from around the world, it highlights the challenges that are already here, the emerging risks, and the pitfalls to avoid in green transitions. It also highlights promising solutions, and illuminates pathways for policy and action.

The Principles for Peace initiative is a global, participatory and collective effort to develop a new set of principles, standards and norms that will reshape peace processes, making them more responsive to imperatives of the 21st century, including climate change.

Spearheaded by the International Commission on Inclusive Peace (ICIP), the initiative leverages real society perspectives, academic research, and realpolitik considerations to offer guidance to policymakers and other actors involved. Reach out for a briefing on our findings.

Water insecurity is increasingly a cause of social and political instability threatening peace and security at all levels. The Geneva Water Hub aims at better understanding and preventing water-related tensions between competing uses, between public and private actors, and between political entities and countries. Through its Platform for International Water Law, the Geneva Water Hub also contributes to the development of a comprehensive legal regime of the protection of water during and after armed conflicts.

International Alert is a peacebuilding organisation that works in Africa, Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Asia regions. We run programmes and do advocacy work with communities, authorities and other relevant stakeholders on the nexus of climate, natural resource management, environment and peacebuilding. We have particular expertise in supporting dialogue process around water, land and forest related conflicts.

In 2001, seven governmental organisations, church development agencies, civil society networks, and political foundations formed the working group for peace and development (FriEnt) to collectively strengthen prevention and peacebuilding.

The working group advocates cooperative, sustainable, and inclusive peacebuilding in Germany, Europe, and the world. It empowers peacebuilding voices at the political level, supports global dialogue, and promotes the diverse potential of peacebuilding approaches and strategies to policy-makers and the public at large. FriEnt works at the interface between state and civil society, peacebuilding and development, and politics and practice.

Swedwatch is an independent, non-profit research organisation. We investigate the extent to which companies, investors and authorities are taking responsibility for human rights and the environment. We focus on countries where there is a high risk of abuses, and we give a voice to the people affected. The aim is to reduce injustices and work to bring about positive development.

QUNO staff work with people in the UN, multilateral organisations, government delegations, and non-governmental organisations, to achieve changes in international standards and practice. Quakers are known for speaking out against injustice and war - issues that are incompatible with our vision of a world in which peace and justice prevail.

QUNO places consistent emphasis on the need to transform the root causes of climate change embedded in our political, economic and social systems. Their work is grounded on IPCC climate science findings that pursuing a 1.5 °C limit to global temperature rise above preindustrial levels would save people and nature from the unprecedented levels of suffering and loss of life predicted with higher temperature rises. On this basis, they work across multiple fora: through international negotiations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with climate science at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and at the Human Rights Council (HRC).

Conciliation Resources is an international organisation committed to stopping violent conflict and creating more peaceful societies. For over 25 years we have been bringing together communities torn apart by violence and mistrust, helping people resolve their differences. With a presence in Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, we connect the views of people on the ground with political processes, and share learning so others can find alternatives to violent conflict.

CEOBS is a UK charity that works with a range of stakeholders to research and publicise

environmental data, develop methodologies to improve data collection and analysis,

and scrutinise and contribute to developments in law and policy intended to reduce the

environmental harm caused by conflicts and military activities. By using satellite images and other innovative monitoring techniques, we track incidents and trends, publishing accessible and robust analyses to tell the story of how the environment has been affected by war. Doing so also allows us to monitor the environmental conduct of militaries and armed groups, helping inform our work to strengthen and increase compliance with the laws protecting the environment in relation to armed conflicts. We share our research with everyone from policy-makers to the public, and use our technical knowledge to help other NGOs and the media tell environmental stories. We regularly engage with international and UN-level processes to highlight the environmental dimensions of conflicts.

The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) is a Washington D.C.-based think tank focused on assisting governments, international actors, and communities to understand and prepare for the effects of climate change on international security and prevent the escalation of climate security threats. CCS is an institute of the Council on Strategic Risks.

For over a decade, CCS has been at the forefront of analysis, policy development, and community-building in this field, and has been instrumental in building the policy consensus that climate change is an urgent security concern. CCS offers a suite of interactive tools and analysis, such as scenarios exercises, which can be applied to a wide range of contexts and communities to understand and respond to climate security risks around the world.