Peacebuilding Program

The Peacebuilding Program is designed to promote the peaceful resolution of sovereignty based conflicts by providing pro bono public international legal assistance to states and sub-state entities involved in peace negotiations. To date PILPG has provided pro bono legal assistance to parties in over a dozen peace negotiations in the Balkans, Caucasus, Asia and Africa.

PILPG also promotes peace-building by providing legal advice and public commentary on post-conflict nation building. The program efforts have recently been focused on Afghanistan and Iraq.

Projects
The program also seeks to promote the peaceful resolution of conflicts by improving the capacity of parties and mediators to utilize international law and includes the following projects:

The Peace Negotiation Drafter's Handbook, which is a step-by-step lawyers guide for writing peace agreements.

Diplomacy Simulation Exercises, which enable current and future mediators, party representatives, and policy shapers to simulate various strategic and tactical approaches to negotiations.

Publications
Members of PILPG are also frequently called upon to prepare congressional testimony, publish op-eds, and provide media commentary, on various conflicts and innovative means by which they may be resolved.

PILPG also holds regular conferences and roundtables, designed to explore general legal and political developments in peace and conflict resolution, as ell as to explore options for promoting the resolution of specific conflicts. Frequently the ideas and recommendations presented during these conferences and roundtables are summarized in brief publications.