Dec 7, 2011
3P organized two policy events for the Fall Gathering of
members of the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), the leading U.S.-based network
of peacebuilding institutions and practitioners working worldwide:
Conflict Prevention Capacities in the U.S. Government:
The first was a panel presentation by Gustavo Delgado and
Tod Wilson of the State Department's new Conflict and Stabilization Operations(CSO) Bureau and Mary Stata, the Coordinator of the Prevention and Protection
Working Group about the new structures the government is putting in place to
improve its overall capacity to prevent violent conflict and mass atrocities.
The State Department officials described the vision and creation of the CSO
Bureau, and Ms. Stata informed AfP members about the new inter-agency
Atrocities Prevention Board, as well as updates on key Congressional budget
accounts that provides the funds for conflict prevention activities.
Material Support Regulations that Restrict Critical
Peacebuilding:
The second event was a participatory discussion of U.S.
"material support" to terrorism regulations that have placed a
chilling effect on important track II peacebuilding, development, and
humanitarian relief activities around the world. AfP members heard from Kay
Guinane of the Charity and SecurityNetwork (CSN) and Sharon Bradford Franklin
of The Constitution Project about the latest discussions with the State
Department, Treasury, and Justice Dept. exploring various potential legal
mechanisms that would allow critical peacebuilding activities to resume without
the fear of being prosecuted for material support
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