Launch of Peace Portal in The Hague

A brand-new Peace Portal was officially launched on 26 January with an event at the Museum for Communication in The Hague. The mission of the Portal is to be a main source and opportunity to share and integrate information leading to action aimed at preventing conflict and building peace.

The Peace Portal promotes non-violent and peaceful solutions by being impartial, open, accessible, respectful, trustworthy, transparent and supporting freedom of expression. Although there is extensive information in the field of conflict prevention and peace building, the Peace Portal accumulates, integrates and analyses this information from diverse sources in one place and makes it available to an audience of varying interests and expertise.

The additional value of this information is that comes from civil society and grass root organisations from conflict areas, which are often an ignored source of information. With this information, the portal intends leading to action aimed at preventing conflict and building peace.

How the portal works

The Peace Portal facilitates civil society cooperation online: allowing users to interact, discuss, build networks and start communities on issues of specific interest. The users also have the opportunity to publish material and reports, contributing to conflict prevention and peace building knowledge base.

The Peace Portal is an initiative of the Global Partnership for the Prevention  of Armed Conflict. The building of the Peace Portal has been supported by the City Council of The Hague, and the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs.

To visit the Peace Portal, go to www.peaceportal.org.