Our Strategic Management Team

The Secretariat, headed by the Director-General, is responsible for the day-to-day activities and management of the organization. It is headquartered in Geneva with regional offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Guatemala City, Guatemala and offices in Brussels, Belgium and New York, US.

Interpeace believes in the importance of decision making power, and as such the members of its Strategic Management Team are located around the world, working alongside colleagues to reinforce local capacities and to provide strategic vision.

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Our Funding

Interpeace would like to thank all individuals, governments, multilateral organizations and foundations that have supported and continue to support our programmes through their voluntary contributions.

Our 2011 expenditure was USD 16.4 million. The projected budget for 2012 is USD 18.4 million.

Interpeace is audited on a worldwide basis by KPMG. Our 2010 financial reports were, for the second year, in accordance with the highest financial reporting standard – International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Our latest Financial Statements and Auditor’s Report is available upon request.

In 2010 the organization also received ZEWO certification demonstrating our commitment to maximize transparency for our donors.

Interpeace would like to thank all who support the organization for their commitment to building lasting peace.

Interpeace has a donor committee limited to the donors of Interpeace. The committee provides advice to the Secretariat on the ‘Programme of Work and the Budget' prepared by the Secretariat for the following year. They consider fundability of the budget and programmatic priorities, and also actively support the Secretariat in securing financial resources.

Support from foundations and private individuals

Interpeace had undertaken a private fundraising initiative to respond to the anticipated need to build up a regular source of private unrestricted income that can complement traditional governmental and inter-governmental funding so ensuring an additional stable financial basis for institutional core costs and those activities that need to be funded from unrestricted funds. To learn more, or find out how you can participate please contact us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Fast Facts

Interpeace has been enabling societies to build lasting peace since 1994.

About Us

Interpeace is an independent, international peacebuilding organization and strategic partner of the United Nations.

We were created by the United Nations in 1994. We became an independent organization in 2000 while maintaining a unique partnership with the UN. As a result, we operate either as an independent NGO or as a UN initiative.

Interpeace is headquartered in Geneva (Switzerland) and has offices in Brussels (Belgium), Guatemala City (Guatemala), Nairobi (Kenya) and New York (USA).

We are governed by a Governing Council made up of prominent individuals from the government, international and business sectors. The Governing Council is chaired by the former President of Ghana, John A. Kufuor and includes seats for the personal representative for the UN Secretary-General and the Host Government, Switzerland.

Through our Advisory Council we bring together governments, multilateral and UN agencies, and experts to analyze the latest in peacebuilding trends.

The Secretariat is led by Scott M. Weber, Director-General and a dedicated staff from around the world.

The three main bodies of Interpeace, the Governing Council, Advisory Council and the Secretariat, provide the necessary support to over 300 peacebuilders in the field. Consisting exclusively of people from the societies in which we are active, our local teams lead the programmes on the ground.

Our Work

Our approach contributes to building lasting peace through inclusive and nationally-led processes of change.

Our added value is our tested approach in strengthening capacities within societies to manage conflict without resorting to violence or coercion.

Peacebuilding must be led and owned from within a society so we work exclusively with national teams in countries across Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe and the Middle East.

We support peacebuilding initiatives in: Belize, Burundi, Costa Rica, Cyprus, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Israel, Liberia, Libya, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Rwanda, Somali Region and Timor-Leste.

Programmes in Côte d'Ivoire, the African Great Lakes region, Madagascar and Mali are currently under development.

We also have a thematic programme covering Constitution Making for Peace, a handbook on options for making and reforming constitutions.

We combine our local peacebuilding knowledge with the latest in international thinking to assist the international community, including the United Nations, to play a more effective role in supporting peacebuilding efforts around the world.

Our Finances and Support

We are a non-profit organization. Our peacebuilding work is funded by generous voluntary contributions from governments, multilateral organizations, foundations and private individuals.

Our donor governments and multilateral organizations work with us through our Donor Committee.

Our 2011 expenditure of US $ 16.5 million reflects the growing demand for our support and expertise from governments, civil society, donor countries, UN agencies and other international organizations.

Our 2011 financial reports were, for the third year, in accordance with the highest financial reporting standard – IFRS. In 2010 we also received ZEWO certification from the Swiss charity evaluator. This demonstrates our focus on providing transparency and accountability for all our stakeholders.

Annual Reports

We regularly report on our programmes and the progress we have made as we work to enable people to build lasting peace. The highlights from each of our programmes and initiatives are included in each Annual Report, in addition to a financial overview and the letters from our Chairman of the Governing Council and Director-General.

In 2009 Interpeace joined a small group of nonprofit organizations that have adopted the sophisticated International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS). This set of accounting standards have been developed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and have been developed for the preparation of financial statements for publicly quoted companies. They represent the highest level of financial reporting and are available upon request by sending an email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Annual Reports:

	2011 Bringing People Together to Build Peace
	2010 Making Peacebuilding Inclusive
	2009-2010 Enabling People to Build Peace
	2008-2009 Faces of Peace
	2007-2008 Peace is a Process
	2006-2007 Peace is Possible
	2005 Investing in Peace