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GPPAC works to promote conflict prevention and peacebuilding at both a conceptual and practical level. As such, the UN International Day of Peace - which falls on 21 September and calls for a 24-hour global ceasefire - represents an excellent opportunity to promote our agenda. Click here to see what GPPAC members did around the world in 2009, and be sure to check back often to see what events are being planned for 2010!
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A collection of inspiring and often remarkable stories of how civil society has made, or is currently making, a difference in conflict areas around the world.
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| Andrés Serbin |
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His most recent books are, in Spanish, Entre la confrontación y el diálogo. Integración regional y diplomacia ciudadana (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2003) and América Latina, el Caribe y Cuba en el contexto global (Sao Paulo: CRIES/AUNA, 2002), and, in English, Sunset over the islands. The Caribbean in the Age of Global and Regional Changes (London: Macmillan, 1998), and (co-edited with Jorge Dominguez) From Pirates to Drug Lords. The Post-Cold War Caribbean Security Environment (New York: State University of New York Press, 1998). Since 1997 he is the Director of the trilingual journal of Social Sciences Pensamiento Propio. He is currently the coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean program on “The role of civil society in conflict prevention” and co-chair of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC).
Andrés Serbin holds a degree in Social Anthropology (Lic. en Antropología Social, Universidad de La Plata, Argentina), a Mg. Sc. In Social Psychology (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela) and a Doctorate in Political Science (Universidad Central de Venezuela). |
Andrés Serbin is currently the Director of the Centre for Global and
Regional Studies (CEGRE), Argentina. He is also the President of CRIES
(Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales), a
Latin American and Caribbean network of 70 NGOs and university research
centers, and a Full Professor (r) at the Central University of
Venezuela. He has been a visiting professor and fellow at several
universities in the United States (Harvard, FIU, Pennsylvania,
Maryland), United Kingdom (Warwick), Latin America (UNLP, UBA, FLACSO,
USB, UB, UAI) and France (Aix-Marseille, Antilles-Guyane, Sorbonne
III), and has been recently awarded with the Simon Bolivar
Chair at La Sorbonne University. He also served as
Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Venezuela; Special
Adviser for Caribbean Affairs to the Latin America Economic System
(SELA); and as a consultant to various Latin
American Ministries of Foreign Affairs and multilateral
organizations. His current main research interests are related to
regionalization, globalization and civil society, and regional
security, peace building and civil society.