Founded by HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein and HRH Princess Sarah Al-Feisal in 2007, Generations For Peace is a leading global non-profit peace-building organisation with its headquarters in Amman, Jordan. We are dedicated to sustainable conflict transformation at the grass roots in communities, by promoting youth leadership, community empowerment, active tolerance, and responsible citizenship.  We are a volunteer movement, empowering, mentoring and supporting volunteers to be change-makers to create a better future in their own communities.

In the last six years, we have trained and mentored more than 8,100 volunteer leaders of youth in 46 countries and territories in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. With our support, their ongoing programmes address local issues of conflict and violence, and have touched the lives of more than 210,000 children, youth and adults.  

Generations For Peace has developed a unique curriculum and cascading model for training carefully-selected volunteer leaders of youth, and mentoring and supporting them to implement sustained activities for children, youth and adults to address issues of cultural and structural violence in their own community.  Contexts include: inter-tribal, inter-ethnic, and inter-religious violence; gender inequality; post-conflict trauma response, reconciliation and reintegration; exclusion of minorities including IDPs, refugees and people with a disability; and challenges of integration in multi-cultural societies. Conflict sensitivity, and the full participation and empowerment of girls and women, are integrated into our approach.

We use sport as an entry point to engage with youth, and our carefully-facilitated sport-based games provide a vehicle for integrated education and behaviour change.  Our strong connections with the Olympic Movement give us access to excellent networks and partners.Generations For Peace is one of only two peace-through-sport organisations officially recognised by the International Olympic Committee.

In addition to our sport-based approaches, we have also developed arts, advocacy, dialogue, and empowerment activities to support conflict transformation with children, youth, and adults in different contexts.

We are committed to robust measurement and evaluation of our programmes to support our learning and innovation, to identify best practices, and to demonstrate impact and sustainability. Our Generations For Peace Institute has partnerships with Georgetown University and University of Oxford, supporting field research of our programmes. The research evidence shows programme outcomes and impacts which include: reductions in different forms of violence; increased capacity to manage conflict in non-violent ways; strengthened ability to break-out of cycles of violence; changes in attitudes and shattering of stereotypes; greater understanding, respect and trust between different tribes, ethnic groups, religions, genders, and minorities; strengthened social capital and social networks; empowerment of girls and women; greater volunteerism, youth engagement, and responsible citizenship.

Generations For Peace is ranked in the "Top 100 NGOs in the World" by The Global Journal. Their ranking is based on an assessment of innovation, impact, and sustainability.  In simple terms, over the last six years we have completed start-up and achieved rapid global growth; we have learned an enormous amount and gone through "proof of concept", developing our approach in different contexts, and demonstrating the success, impact and sustainability of our model. We are now facing growing demand for our programmes around the world, and wish to secure more partnerships to build on our success and sustain our continued growth.

As well as governmental donor funding from Jordan and Norway, we have excellent partnerships with several UN agencies and NGOs, within the Olympic Movement, and with companies in different sectors. Samsung is our largest commercial partner and has been our partner since 2008. Our core administrative overheads are covered by our funding grant from the Jordanian Government, but we rely on partners for programme costs. Partners therefore know that 100% of their support is going directly to field programmes and real impact in communities.

You can support us by volunteering, by partnering with us for programmes or research, by donating, or simply by sharing our story. Please go to our website at www.generationsforpeace.org to learn more.