Network Peace Cooperative
| Network Peace Cooperative / Friends of Peace e. V. | |
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| legal form | non-profit registered association at the Bonn District Court |
| founding | 1989 in Bonn |
| founder | Manfred Stenner |
| Seat | Bonn |
| motto | Network of the German Peace Movement |
| main emphasis | Peace anti-militarism pacifism |
| Chair | Rainer Seifert |
| Managing directors | Kristian Golla, Philipp Ingenleuf |
| Website | www.friedenskooperative.de |
| As of July 30, 2019 | |
The network peace cooperative (officially Förderverein Frieden e.V. ) is a registered association based in Bonn and is active within the peace movement.
background
The Bonn office is an information office about and for the peace movement. It is the point of contact for all those interested in peace politics , activists and the press . According to its own information, the Peace Co-op network does extensive information work. It actively supports campaigns and actions within the peace movement and helps mobilize, coordinate and carry out campaigns. However, it does not decide on actions, but maintains an exchange of discussion and information as a nationwide network and serves as a coordination point for joint activities of various groups. The peace cooperative publishes the FriedensForum magazine six times a year .
Campaigns
Supervised campaigns include:
- Büchel is everywhere! free of nuclear weapons
- Never under 18! No minors in the Bundeswehr
- We demand: disarming instead of upgrading.
- MAKES PEACE. Civil solutions for Syria
Friends of Peace
The Friends of Peace is the legal entity of the peace cooperative network and is classified as non-profit. The purpose of the association is to promote peace work , peace education , international understanding and international justice. Financing comes exclusively from grants, subscription payments, the sale of the “FriedensForum” magazine and information materials as well as donations. The network peace cooperative is independent of large donations and is not supported by political parties.
Cooperation for Peace
The network office is the contact address for Cooperation for Peace as an “alliance organization” with the aim of long-term strategic cooperation for peace , justice , solidarity and the preservation of the environment . With the "Peace Policy Guidelines", the cooperation brought out an important paper for the discussion of perspectives for peace work and organized, among other things. a. annual strategy conferences.
Calendar of events
The network has also built up an extensive information system on peace policy issues, initiatives , events and campaigns on the Internet. The calendar of events includes several thousand dates per year. There is a database-supported system for content research on topics, facts and opinions .
history
The network emerged from the coordination committee of the peace movement , which dissolved on December 17, 1989 in favor of the new network peace cooperative. The precursor of the network Friedenskooperative was as central nationwide Planungssorganisation host of the large-scale demonstrations against the deployment plans of the NATO for cruise missiles and Pershing II and the Warsaw pact for SS-20 /21-nuclear missiles in the 1980s -Jahren.
In contrast to the coordination committee, the peace cooperative no longer decides on actions, but maintains an exchange of discussions and information as a nationwide network and continues to serve as a coordination point for joint activities of various groups. In addition to many campaigns and projects , z. B. organized some large-scale demonstrations at the then seat of government in Bonn, such as the demonstration on January 26, 1991 against the Second Gulf War .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Statute of the Friends of Peace ; accessed on July 30, 2019
- ↑ Topic page "Appointments database" , accessed on July 30, 2019