§ Lord Hyltonasked Her Majesty's Government:
How many and which United Nations agencies are taking part in the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum; and what are the future plans of this organisation. [HL5002]
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§ Baroness Symons of Vernham DeanThe Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum (CPPF) is a small think tank which was established in October 2000 to strengthen the knowledge base and analytical capacity of the United Nations system in the fields of conflict prevention and management, peace-making and peace-building by providing United Nations personnel with access to scholars, experts and practitioners outside the intergovernmental system.
As an organisation, it has undertaken some facilitation of meetings with the UN Secretariat on issues that have on occasion included other UN agencies such as UNDP and UNICEF.
In its work CPPF seeks to collaborate with an increasingly broad network of partner institutions that work on conflict prevention and peace building in regions of concern. Since its inception it has undertaken activities in areas such as Afghanistan, the Andes, Central Asia and South Eastern Europe. Full details of their activities can be found at http:// cppf.ssrc.org.
The Department for International Development (DfID) has allocated 1,050,000 in support of CPPF with funding from the Global Conflict Prevention Pool.