Intercontentintal Network for Peace and Solidarity

Intercontinental Network por Pax y Solidarite

Network Intercontinentale pour Paix et Solidarité

Intercontintental Network for Peace and Solidarity


The Network in Keywords – 2002-2005

The Intercontinental Network for Peace and Solidarity was created in March 2001 at Grenoble, France. It gathers two French associations: the Ecole de la Paix - Grenoble (research, training and action for peace culture and non-violence centre) and Aide à l'Enfance Tibétaine (association encouraging education in order to help Tibetan refugees back to Tibet).

The specificity of this transverse network of international solidarity is to regroup NGO representatives from three countries, each of them symbolizing a continent:

Democratic Republic of Congo (Africa)
Colombia (South America)
Tibet (Asia)

having the following characteristics in common:

  • Daily experiencing systematic violation of human rights.
  • Not being supported efficiently by UNO.
  • Confronted with a situation of emergency and researching peace.
  • Using non-violent means, whenever possible.

These three NGOs are

Association des Cadres Pénitentiaires du Congo (ACPC)
DR Congo
represented by Laurent Kantu Lumpungu
Asamblea Permanente de la Sociedad Civil por la Paz (APSCP)
Colombia
represented by Inés De Brill
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD)
Tibet
represented by Ugyen Tsewang

Laurent Kantu, Inés De Brill and Lobsang Tsering

Grenoble – March 2001
Laurent Kantu, Inés De Brill and Lobsang Tsering

Network objectives:

Inform, exchange, develop the links between the countries and share the experiences capable of enriching the Network


Origin: An acknowledgement

  • Countries in conflict suffering of systematic violation of human rights
  • Western official institutions defaulting (UNO), unable to support these countries efficiently

Project: Build an international solidarity network in order to compensate the deficiencies. A Network:

  • Anchored in the local environment (2 associations represented in Grenoble: AET, EDP)
  • Gathering 3 representatives of NGO from different countries:
    Laurent Kantu Lumpungu (ACPC – République Démocratique du Congo)
    Inés De Brill (APSCP – Colombia)
    Ugyen Tsewang (TCHRD – Tibet)
  • One NGO representative by continent (Africa: RD Congo, America: Colombia, Asia: Tibet)

Characteristics

  • The horizontality encouraging the synergy of actions and the sharing between the associations within the Network
  • Absence of a prevailing associative French centre (the 3 associations from Grenoble coordinate their action and ensure the durability of the Network
  • A network made up of associations and NGO and not of natural persons
  • The presence of the Network on the 3 continents: token of an actual horizontality.
  • One NGO per country (each NGO is linked with other NGOs in its own country, becomes Network relay and can increase the impact and reinforce the international solidarity.
  • One coordinator by NGO and by association, ensuring the regulation of the network.
  • A charter written by the coordinators, precisely defining the ethic and the ideology of the Network.

The network commitment is in keeping with the human rights, peace and non-violence culture.

Network future prospects for 2003-2005

  • Expand the local partnership
  • Favour the exchanges between the 3 NGO In the field
  • Organize the Forum Peace in DRC and in the Great Lakes area in 2004.
  • Organize the coordinators trip (Congo, Colombia, Tibet) to the next Worldwide Social Forum at Mumbai (India) in January 2004 as they wish and to others destinations they think opportune.
  • Implement in the three countries the water access for everybody project and promote it as a human right (in partnership with New Synergies in Development)
  • Support horizontally the actions of the civil society of impacted countries.
  • Favour the efficiency of the NGO in the field and give the facilities to the NGO representatives in order to give them the opportunity to speak in the international colloquiums.
  • To gather documentation and to learn in order to imagine alternatives and to implement them.

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