Whats Next for the Women Peace And Security Agenda at 20?

In 2020, we commemorate 20 years of the Women Peace and Security (WPS) agenda since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 in October 2000. The UN Secretary-General's 2019 Annual Report on WPS highlighted the important role of regions in developing innovative, 'context-specific' approaches to the WPS agenda and in identifying practical and measurable steps for…

Webinar – Conflict Culture & Democracy Session 4

This is the fourth Demo Sapiens webinar series that is co-sponsored by Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) and the Millennium Alliance of Humanity and the Biosphere (Stanford University). It is led by Ashok Panikkar of MetaCulture. It is a 12-part Conflict, Culture & Democracy Course. It will be held weekly on Thursdays at 10 AM ET…

EWER Part 1 (Oct 22)

This training session is designed to answer the question "What exactly is conflict early warning and early response?" The program goes through basic concepts, raises important questions, and addresses ethical challenges.  This first session provides an overall introduction and will help you identify what role you can play in this initiative. Part II, Advanced Concept Training, will provide more of the…

2021 Quito Congress Planning Call

Join the Quito 2021 Congress Planning call. The event itself will be November 3-5, 2021, and we meet every fourth Thursday 4-5 pm to prepare. Please email 2021congress@mediatorsbeyondborders.org to receive the Zoom link and access to the Slack workspace.

Building a Resiliency Network Oct 22

Over these two training sessions, Over Zero will present their most recent toolkit, "Building a Resiliency Network: a toolkit for building community resilience during a contentious election cycle,". The toolkit can serve as a shared framework, with step by step guidance, for local Conveners of the Trust Network as they work to build resilience communities during…