Promoting Peace through Projects and Partnerships

The United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY Peacebuilders) is a global network of 62 youth-led peace organisations and over 300 affiliates, active in the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation.
UNOY’s international secretariat, based in The Hague, contributes to the work of its members and affiliates in two fundamental ways, by means of ‘Capacity Building‘, and ‘Advocacy and Campaigning’. It also engages in a range of additional activities to support these two key functions, i.e. networking; sharing of information; advice and support through a pool of resource persons; research; fundraising and administrative support.
Since its inception in 1989, UNOY Peacebuilders has organised a series of international work group meetings, training seminars and regional/global conferences. UNOY’s focuses on peacebuilding activities in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa.
Furthermore, UNOY Peacebuilders has been actively promoting the UN declaration ‘International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence (2001-2010)’ and is promoting the values and principles gathered in the Earth Charter, as a guiding ethical framework for action. In 2005, UNOY Peacebuilders contributed to the World Civil Society Mid-Term Report on the international decade for a Culture of Peace and in 2006 the organization contributed to the Youth for a Culture of Peace report. In 2010, UNOY Peacebuilders was also part of a youth-team that initiated and wrote the End of the Decade Report on a Culture of Peace, which was recently submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations.