Our work

Lasting peace has to be built in a continuing process that encourages the attitudes, the behaviour and the structural conditions in society that lay the foundations for peaceful, stable and prosperous social and economic development.

International Alert works to encourage and facilitate this process, either during violent conflict, once the fighting is over, or in order to prevent it from erupting. This involves working together with people who live in areas affected or threatened by armed conflict as well as improving both the substance and implementation of international policies that affect peacebuilding and the prospects for peace.

We do this in a number of ways:

• Dialogue – creating safe spaces in which to bring together groups and people who are divided by conflict and who would not otherwise be in dialogue with each other
  
  
• Accompaniment – working with diverse groups to strengthen their involvement in peace processes.
  
  
• Capacity building – building organisations’ awareness of peacebuilding issues and their capacities to strengthen prospects for peace.
  
  
• Research and analysis – a mutual process with local partners that is the basis of both our work in conflict zones and our policy development.
  
  
• Public education – raising awareness both in conflict countries and in the UK of peacebuilding, how it works, and why it matters

Our work in countries affected or threatened by conflict is in the Great Lakes region of Africa, West Africa, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Latin America and Asia. Click here to find out more.

Our issue-based work is on business, development assistance, humanitarian aid, gender, security and post-conflict reconstruction. Click here to find out more.

To find out more about peacebuilding and Alert’s role in it, visit our About Us pages

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