Honoring Achievements of "Unknown Peace Workers and NGOs" in Africa

Call for Nominations

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The project "African Grassroot Peace Work Alerts" of "Caaglop - Center for African Affairs and Global Peace" and "Tango - International Training Agency for NGOs" will honor persons and NGOs in Africa, particularly on the grassroot level, whose commitments for peace are an essential achievement for peace, disamement and non-violent conflict management in Africa. 

Caaglop and Tango hereby invite persons and the international NGO community to nominate examples and case studies for "African Grassroot Peace Work Alerts", especially from the grassroot level, so that they will become more known to the international public and to fundgivers for NGOs.  

Nominations can be emailed for the work of individual persons as well as for the work of Non-Governmental-Organizations. A special focus of "Africa Grassroot Peace Work Alerts" are the achievements of African "Unknown Peace Workers" and small African NGOs which - in spite of their often highly valuable contribution to peace - are so far too little known in the international public. "Africa Grassroot Peace Work Alerts" wants to promote especially those "low key" peace work contributions in the international public.

The peace work achievments of the nominated persons or organzations should be a contribution to one or more of the following focus areas in Africa:

• Substantial reducing of armaments,
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  armies or arms export in individual countries  
  
• Significant contributions to peace via non-violent conflict management approaches
  
• Overcoming intra-society or international violence and contributions to reconciliation in post-war areas
  
• Developing and implementation of
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  educational and training material (text books, courses curricula etc) which significantly contribute to non-violent conflict management
  
  
  
  
• Public reporting about successful international or inner-society achievements for non-violent conflict management in newspapers, online or in text-books

Each nomination for the "African Grassroot Peace Work Alert" has to contain:

• A summary of the work / project of the person or NGO which is nominated for the Alert (not more than two email pages)
• An email address of the person/NGO whose work is nominated
• A web site link of the organization (if existing)
  
• The names, jobs and email addresses of two persons which can be contacted for possible further investigation about the nomination
  
  

Nominations can be emailed by persons or organizations about their own work or in credit for other organizations or persons.

All nominations must be emailed not later than 31 December 2010 in English or French language with two identical emails to the following two persons:

• Victor Brassey (info@caaglop.com), Director of "Caaglop - Center for African Affairs and Global Peace" and
  
• Dr Burkhard Luber (hubluber@web.de), Director of "Tango - International Training Agency for NGOs" and blogger of 
  http://from-the-grassroots.blogspot.com and http://german-tea-party.blogspot.com 

The most convincing submitted nominations will be published in length here on this web site early 2011, thereby informing the international public and sponsoring community about these activities and assisting the committed persons and NGOs in their fundraising. 

More information on "Africa Grassroot Peace Work Alerts" on this website.