The secretariat of the Platform is hosted by the European Centre for Conflict Prevention which is based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The European Platform is reconstructing the web site you are using for reference now. We kindly ask you to answer eight questions about its usefulness and to send the form back us. People Building Peace' tells the stories of the valuable initiatives taken by citizens of many countries to help resolve conflict, to prevent violence, and to reconcile parties that have been at war. One of the main messages of the publication is the need to invest in preventive action at an early stage of conflict.
Preventive action is more necessary today than ever before.
This book shows that such action is not only necessary, it is also possible. Searching for Peace in Africa with 31 conflict prevention and management surveys of African conflicts and several introductory and regional articles. The report is now available. Back issues of the quarterly newsletter are also available on-line. In March the European Centre for Conflict Prevention organised an international seminar on Conflict Resolution in Schools in the Netherlands.