Publications & reports
Celebrating the dedication of LPI’s women peacebuilders
Since our primary way of working is in collaborative partnership, especially with local civil society, particularly women, in this limited edition, we will celebrate the dedication and achievements of LPI’s very own women peacebuilders to…
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Innovative Local Financing Mechanism Briefs
This brief is designed to highlight creative, innovative, and adaptive mechanisms already being implemented that provide accessible, relevant, and community-driven funding to local peace and development actors.
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Practical Avenues to Improve Support for Local Peace Actors
In 2023, the Life & Peace Institute (LPI) partnered with our colleagues at the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation and the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) to identify seven principles of quality financing for…
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Civil Society Engagement with the African Union Transitional Justice Policy in the Horn of Africa
Responding to the changing regional peace and security landscape in the Horn of Africa and aiming to add value to the structural prevention agenda of the African Union (AU), in 2021, the Life & Peace Institute (LPI) increased its…
This publication has been produced by a group of young women and men drawn from several borderland communities in the Horn of Africa; and were part of a cross-border cooperation project implemented by LPI and its local civil society…
Lessons from the first experience of direct civil society funding in Somalia from the UN Peacebuilding Fund’s Gender and Youth Peacebuilding Initiative
The Gender and Youth Promotion Initiative (GYPI) is part of the United Nation’s Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and is designed to support the empowerment of women, advancement of gender equality, and the important role youth people play in…
Youth as Drivers of Peace 2018 - 2019
In 2018 and 2019 LPI implemented the Connecting Across Divides: Youth as Drivers of Peace project in collaboration with the Mandera Peace Development Committee and Wajir Peace Development Agency. The process led to a number of critical…
Practical Avenues to Improve Support for Local Peace Actors
This paper, written in partnership between Life & Peace Institute, Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, and Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, suggests practical avenues to improve the quality of financial support to local…