Sustainable Peace Foundation (SPF)

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Sustainable Peace Foundation (SPF) is an Iraqi Non-governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in 2019. We strive to build and sustain peace through vertical and horizontal participatory methods and grassroot approaches; to reinstate and strengthen lost trust between Iraq’s ethno-religious communities and diverse social groups; empower and build the capacities of the very effected communities, with a centripetal focus on marginalised groups of Iraq’s social fabric - such as women and girls, youth and minorities: so they can reduce social tensions, mitigate and transform conflicts through dialogue and non-violent means.

SPF develops, designs and implements programming in social cohesion, peacebuilding and other cross-cutting areas, such as climate change and environmental justice, peace journalism and restorative justice through integrated approaches and interventions, without losing focus of our primary goals and objectives.

Vision
Building and sustaining peace in Ira

Mission
Empowering Iraq’s diverse communities to achieve sustainable positive peace and equity through inclusive dialogue, non-violent conflict resolution, and grassroots initiatives, with a dedicated focus on women, youth and marginalised groups

Projects:
• Sports for Peace: SPF implements the 'Sports for Peace project through the generous funding of IOM's Wasl programme. The Sports for Peace is a PVE project, which capitalised on sports to increase youth, girls resilience to violent extremism in west of Mosul by preventing violent extremism and sustaining peace in the district.
• United for Environmental Justice: SPF implements the ‘United for Environmental Justice’ project within the framework of Un Ponte Per’s ‘Hiwar’ project, which is funded by United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) through EU-Iraq funding. The project capacitates, empower community members from Nineveh governorate’s Al-Qayyara sub-district by providing them with the necessary skills of effective dialogue, negotiation and advocacy; and providing them with a platform to promote and advocate for environmental justice by engaging the key stakeholder from the local authorities, such as: the Directorates of Environment and Agriculture so that they are able to minimise and mitigate the risks to the health and livlihood of the inhabitants of the area who are exposed to acute pollution resulting from oil fields and sulphur plants in the sub-district
• Our Schools, Our Responsibility: The project aims to Prevent Violent Extremism (PVE) in Diyala governorate through designing and implementing interventions at the governorate’s educational facilities, both primary and preparatory schools. The project also works closely with the Office of National Security Advisory (ONSA) with the objective of implementing their national ‘Strategy to Combat Violent Extremism Conducive to Terrorism.’
• Me Too and I am not Alone: The ‘Me Too’ project is implementedwithin the framework of Un Ponte Per’s ‘Tatweer’ project, which is funded by EU-Iraq. Whilst the ‘I am not Alone’ project is funded by Cordaid: Together they tackle sextortion in Nineveh Plain and Mosul city (both the east and west bank of the city).
• Sharpen your Pencils, Not your Swords: Capacitating the youth, of both sexes, from the liberated governorates, Diyala, Anbar, Salaheddin, Kirkuk and Nineveh through a series of training workshops on creative writing.
• Reflections: The project aimed at training academic youth, taking gender balance into consideration, from the recently liberated Iraqi governorates, i.e. Diyala, Anbar, Salaheddin, Kirkuk and Nineveh on research methodology and how to conduct Participatory Action Research for peacebuidling in these conflict areas.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.