Alexander Langer Foundation, Italy
The Foundation is supported by 180 European and Italian MPs, members of regional and city councils, journalists, professors, researchers, educators, human rights and environmental activists, and citzens from different European countries. Foundations, associations, committees and Italian and European publications have adhered and contributed. Cultural associations, streets, parks, halls have been named in memory of Alex Langer.

To enforce and continue relations which have been formed with the prize winners, the Foundation will promote and/or sponsor the construction of an "euromediterranea network" which has recognisable and available partners to install significant forms of collaboration according to the aim of the Statute (exchanges, twining, trips and study grants). The network will try to compile a periodical in several languages to strenghthen the freedom and quality of information.

http://www.alexanderlanger.org

Bund für Soziale Verteidigung (BSV), Germany
BSV unites people and organizations of different ideological, religious and political convictions and affiliations who consider nonviolence the only answer to the threats and dangers facing humanity. The organization’s three core objectives are abolition of military and armament, developing nonviolent means of crisis prevention and defence and developing a culture of nonviolence within our own society.

http://www.soziale-verteidigung.de

Peacebuilding UK, Chechnya (Russia) / England
‘Peacebuilding UK’ (full name ‘Centre for Peacebuilding and Community Development’) supports and implements a number of projects with our partner organisations, local groups and individuals in the North Caucasus region. Our main local partners are the ‘Little Star’ NGO based in Chechnya, and the ‘Centre for Peacebuilding and Community Development’ Russian Charitable Fund, which has offices in Chechnya, Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Dagestan. The work that we support includes psychosocial, peacebuilding and community development projects. We also support the ‘Daimohk’ children’s dance ensemble in Chechnya.

http://www.peacebuildinguk.org

Centro Studi Difesa Civile (CSDC), Italy
Civilian Defence Research Center

The CDSC (Civilian Defence Research Center) was founded in 1988 and has since then contributed to the development of social research on peace and security issues in Italy. Since the year 2001, CSDC is an association for social promotion, recognised under the Italian law as "associazione di promozione sociale".

It is the vision of CSDC to promote non-armed civilian defence (or nonviolent populardefence), analyze the transition from armed to non-armed defence and promote research concerning nonviolent conflict management. CSDC also develop historical research on non-armed cases of resistance, raise public awareness of civilian and nonviolent means for handling conflicts, develop a culture of peace and nonviolence and finally experiment new forms of nonviolent conflict intervention for their resolution/transformation.

http://www.pacedifesa.org

CReDO - Centrul de Resurse pentru Drepturlie Omului, Moldova
Resource Center for Human Rights

CReDO promotes democratic changes and contributes to the European integration of Moldova by offering policy proposals and solutions which create wealth in the society as well as organisational sustainability. CReDO promotes democracy and human rights through democratic leadership.

http://www.credo.md

Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD), Germany
Forum Civilian Peace Services

Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst / Civil Peace Service (forumZFD) works on alternatives to violence and tries to influence policies by advocating CPS programmes. It is deploying Conflict Consultants both abroad and within Germany. forumZFD also offers elaborated training programmes for civil conflict transformation/Civil Peace Service.

http://www.forumZFD.de

Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (HRIDC), Georgia
The Human Rights Information and Documentation Center (HRIDC) is a non-governmental human rights organisation, without any political or religious affiliations. HRIDC implements projects to ensure compliance with human rights laws and standards. We cooperate with international organisations and local organisations that share our view that respect for human rights is a precondition for sustaining democracy and peace in our country. HRIDC’s vision is that all people in Georgia are able to exercise their civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights; believing that the practical realisation of these rights is an essential step to maintaining peace and the construction of a modern democracy in Georgia, based on human rights and the rule of law.

http://www.hridc.org

Kansalaisjärjestöjen Konfliktinehkäisyverkosto (KATU), Finnland
Civil Society Conflict Prevention Network

KATU - the Civil Society Conflict Prevention Network was established in spring 1997. KATU is an open network, a forum combining the efforts of conflict prevention of Finnish NGO's. There are at the moment some 30 NGO's and research institutes as well as many individuals cooperating within KATU. The discussion on conflict prevention as such, and the role that civil society can play in preventing violent conflicts, had been going on among the NGOs for some time before that. There was a strong belief that traditional state-centered approach to conflict prevention and management had become insufficient. A multi-track solution, taking into account all the different actors of civil society such as non-governmental organizations, is needed.

http://www.katunet.fi[[BR]]

Mouvement Alternative Non-Violente (MAN), France
Mouvement for a Nonviolent Alternative

Mouvement pour une Alternative Nonviolent (Mouvement for a Nonviolent Alternative -MAN) aims to promote research and analysis on nonviolence as well as concrete nonviolent action from the local to the international level. MAN brings together nonviolent activists in France in 20 local groups, supported by a National Secretary. The three core objectives are developing a culture of nonviolence within our own society (personal, social and political level), developing nonviolent education, through training and information sessions and promoting nonviolent third party intervention and supporting international civilian peacekeeping and peacebuilding.

http://www.nonviolence.fr

Nederlands Expertisecentrum Alternatieven voor Geweld (NEAG), Netherlands
Dutch Expertise Center for Alternatives to Violence

NEAG Alternatives to Violence contributes actively to preventing and transforming violence and to promoting alternative ways of conflict management, in the Netherlands as well as elsewhere. Our organisational strengths are a broad network within the field of conflict resolution and peacebuilding (both on the national and the international level), expertise of the staff and the board members and reputation as the organisation that initiated “People Building Peace Netherlands” (PBPNL) and succeeded in attracting many organisations with different backgrounds to participate in this platform.

http://www.neag.nl

Norges Fredslag (NFL), Norway
Norwegian Peace Association

The NPA is an independent NGO with a roster of about 250 volunteers and one part-time staff. The NPA works for lasting peace based on economic and social justice, freedom and personal responsibility, and for the development of a culture of peace where conflicts within and between countries are managed constructively and nonviolently. It aims include building competency for better peacebuilding practices, peace education and training and lobbying for Civil Peace Services.

http://www.fredslaget.no

Norges Fredssråd, Norway
Norwegian Peace Council

NorPeace is the cooperative body for peace organizations in Norway. We create compelling arenas for peace work that contribute to strengthening Norwegian peace organizations’ opportunities for co-operation, dissemination and advocacy. The goals of NorPeace include competence building, better funding and improved conditions for peace work, enhanced co-operation between relevant actors and increased visibility of peace oriented platforms in public debate.

http://norgesfredsrad.no

NOVA - Centre per a la Innovació Social
Center for Social Innovation

NOVA is an independent, non-profit association that promotes social innovation in order to create new models and practices aimed at moving the society towards a sustainable world for all. The programs and projects developed by NOVA have shown that the application of social innovation can succeed in areas such as nonviolence in action, participative democracy, transparency and for searching alternatives to the system, among others.

NOVA not only creates social innovation initiatives, but also collects and supports people who is developing or wants to develop this kind of initiatives. In order to do so, NOVA has a specific program, the Novalab Area. In the view of nova, developing and supporting new social innovation initiatives is as important as putting in practice and spreading those ones that already exist. This is what the Nonviolence in Action program does: it recovers, redefines and spreads in the Middle East the nonviolence resistance movement that Mahatma Gandhi put in place in India at the beginning of the XX century.

http://www.nova.cat

Östereichische Friedensdienste (ÖFD), Austria
Austrian Peace Services

Peace politics to establish further peace promoting structures Civil Peace Services (CPS) as an active peace policy instrument and establishing a professional Civil Peace Service in Austria. Our organisational strengths are field experience with volunteers / experiences with voluntary peace service (conscientious objectors) in former Yugoslavia from 1993 to 2004, expertise on Western Balkans and on CPS (internationally and in Austria) and ÖFD/APS is recognised as competent expert/partners on the topic of CPS by the government, the Foreign Ministry, the Austrian Development Agency (ADA).

http://www.oefd.at

Österreichisches Studienzentrum für Frieden und Konfliktlösung (ÖSFK), Austria
Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)

The ASPR aims to contribute to the promotion of peace and peaceful conflict resolution and to the dissemination of practical ideas for peace, including its developmental and environmental aspects. It conducts and evaluates research, engages in training and education, and peace building projects. It also publishes several periodicals dealing with peace issues.

http://www.aspr.ac.at

Partners for Democratic Change Slowakia, Slovakia
PDCS is an independent NGO. We provide professional educational, consultation and advisory services and publish books. Our mission is to help develop and promote a culture of democracy, spread democratic approaches to and mechanisms for dialogue and conflict prevention in its widest sense. We provide assistance through development programmes and arrange culture dialogue among various interest groups. Most of our work serves non-profit organisations, public administration as well as cross-sector dialogue projects. PDCS has operated in Slovakia since 1991 as a member of the international network Partners for Democratic Change International.

http://www.pdcs.sk

Peace Action Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR), Romania
To support peace processes and peace support operations to develop an effective infrastructure for peace and trained, professional capacities,through training programs, support for strategic planning and direct engagement in peacebuilding and conflict transformation assisting violence prevention, war to peace transition and post-war recovery and reconciliation.

http://www.patrir.ro

World Window, Moldova-Transdnistria
NGO World Window is working on the grassroots and middle social leadership levels trying to support the active understanding and participation of public leaders, youth and NGO’s in the European Integration process and the broader process of globalisation. Our aims are to build bridges of understanding across the Dniestr River and from Moldova more widely across the Euro-Atlantic space. This is done by organizing educational, legal, cultural and conflict resolution programs. We work actively to develop democracy and an engaged civil society through providing information, training, technical assistance, and creation of local and international partnerships.

http://www.worldwindow.md