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Anti-violence, Capacity building, Children & Youth, Community Building, Education, Gender Issues, Human Rights, Inclusion, Knowledge Sharing, Peacebuilding, Social Justice

GENERATIONS FOR PEACE

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GENERATIONS FOR PEACE is world ranked on thedotgood.

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Year of Registration

2007

Number of Followers

Annual income

US$ 6.37 million

Category of SGO

Non-profit

Country

Jordan

Chief Executive Officer

Mark Clark

Generations For Peace’s CEO, Mark Clark, Reflects on the Constant Nurturing of his Organization

"We’ve Gone Through Proof of Concept in Very Diverse Conflict Contexts"

By The [.] Newsroom From thedotgood's Editorial Desk

March 8, 2018

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What's so special with that SGO.

There are few iconic social good organizations (SGOs) that truly capture the success of the nonprofit sphere. Despite its young age, Generations For Peace just may be one of them. At first glance, its grassroots peace-building mission seems nearly impossible. Asking youths rather than governments to bring about peace may sound a bit naïve. But when you face GFP’s army of young, articulate, peace-pushing volunteers, then you understand that something big is going on here. There seems to be no limit to the organization’s ambition and discipline. What began as a peace-through-sport initiative of the Jordan Olympic Committee has now trained nearly 9,000 peace-building volunteers in 50 countries, with such tools as Arts, Advocacy, Empowerment, and Dialogue for Peace augmenting the original Sport For Peace approach, delivering sustainable impact.

In conflict zones, communities often reject other communities, particularly those perceived...

In conflict zones, communities often reject other communities, particularly those perceived as different. This is where Generations For Peace makes a difference: the organization mentors young people to bring about powerful and desperately needed social change by building mutual respect, tolerance, and trust through dialogue. Further, GFP recognizes the importance of reflecting deeply on its own work and the many projects it conducts. The organization is constantly innovating, experimenting, evaluating, and then scaling up the projects that work. For instance, the organization is currently growing its programs in response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis by 263%.

Generations For Peace brings its multi-pronged model to bear on all key scoring criteria. In 2015, GFP climbed up the ladder from rank #94 to #32, at a time when many other organizations saw their rank drop or stagnate. To deliver impact as well as innovation at the grassroots level requires dedication to developing a new culture around peace, not to mention a great sense of motivation. Perhaps some of GFP’s drive comes from its CEO, Mark Clark, who has brought passion and discipline to the organization over the last 10 years.

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Mission statement

We believe a more peaceful world is possible. We want to make it happen, now and for future generations.
We believe in active tolerance and that embracing diversity strengthens us. We are concerned about a growing culture of division, prejudice, and hate. We see people struggling to relate to each another and failing to respond to conflict and disputes without resorting to violence.
We believe in the enormous potential of young people to lead change. We are passionate about empowering them to transform conflict and reduce violence in their own communities.
We believe in measuring everything we do, so we can learn, adapt, increase impact, and ensure sustainability.
Our unique model is demonstrating real results with limited resources. We are just 15 years old, but for the last seven years we have been consistently ranked within the Top 35 NGOs in the world.
We are a global community. We are Generations for Peace. Please… Pass it on!

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Impact

LATEST ANNUAL INCOME

US$ 6.37 million

Previous Annual Income

US$ 4.31 million

Latest Surplus/Deficit

US$ 57,974

Latest Net Assets

US$ 3.22 million

Name of Auditing Firm

Price water house coopers PWC

LATEST FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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COUNTRY (OR COUNTRIES) WHERE ACTIVE

Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan, Palestine, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tunisia, Uganda, United States of America, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Latest ANNUAL REPORT

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TAX YEAR END

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Governance

Chief Executive Officer

Mark Clark

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Mark is passionate about transformational change that makes a real difference: behaviour change in individuals, social change in communities, and processes of change and capacity development in organisations. His role as CEO for Generations For Peace combines all three, and draws on his diverse experience with Governments, NGOs, the Olympic Movement and private sector, in humanitarian emergencies, conflict and post-conflict environments, community development, youth development, sport for peace and development, organisational development, legal practice and the military. Mark is from Scotland and joined Generations For Peace in January 2011. He has led the organisation through significant year-on-year growth in funding, staff, programming and impact. Previously, Mark lived and worked in Papua New Guinea (2006-2010), Democratic Republic of Congo (2005-2006); Iraq (2003-2005); and India (2001-2002). Formerly a corporate lawyer practicing in the UK and India, Mark is still a Solicitor certified by the Law Society of Scotland, and a Member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet. Mark graduated from University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School & HEC School of Management Paris (MSc), Université Lyon 1 (MA); University of Edinburgh (LLB Honours; and Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice); and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has additional certificates in Transformative Dialogue from the Nansen Centre for Peace and Dialogue in Norway; in Community Dispute Resolution from Colorado State University in collaboration with Village Earth; in Non-Violent Communication from the Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), and in Conflict Resolution, Transformation and Peacebuilding from the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS). Mark served as a British Army Officer for 10 years and also with the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and was awarded MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his work in Iraq 2003-2005. Mark’s favourite escape is a long run, or a hike into the mountains with his paraglider.

Has Held position since

2011

Board Gender balance

3 f / 4 m (43% f / 57% m)

Number of Employees

Number of Volunteers

22,626

History

Since 2007, when Generations for Peace (GFP) was founded as a peace-through-sport initiative of the Jordan Olympic Committee, our journey has been a quest to turn passion into impact. Our focus has always been on supporting people to implement grassroots peacebuilding activities in their own communities to address burning issues of hatred, intolerance, exclusion, inequality, and violence, which they are passionate about changing. Our quest to ensure their passion and effort secures ever-greater impact has driven the continuous evolution of our approach and our organisation over the last 15 years.

From our initial focus on sport as a vehicle for youth engagement and behaviour change, and as we grew, we have learnt from failures and successes in diverse conflict contexts, and evaluated, adapted, and refined our approach to include six tools: sport, arts, advocacy, dialogue, empowerment, and media. Our peacebuilding toolkit has allowed us to easily tailor and adapt activities to local situations and target groups, and our programmes often now use a combination of these tools. To date, we have trained over 22,626 volunteers and reached 1,449,208 children, youth, and adults in 52 countries across the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Along this incredible journey, through all the changes and adaptations, key elements have remained constant. All our programmes promote four values: youth leadership, community empowerment, active tolerance, and responsible citizenship. And in all our work we keep a focus on four drivers of change:  innovation, quality, impact, and sustainability. Keeping that focus also enabled us to pivot and respond quickly to COVID19, both in our programming and digitisation of our approaches, and in our organisational practices. Amidst the recent upsurge of hate speech, prejudice, and violent extremism; economic drivers of fragility; persistent barriers to participation for youth, for refugees; for girls and women, and for those with disabilities; and climate change impacts increasing vulnerabilities, displacement, and conflict risks, we feel the urgency of our mission and growing demand for our support to turn passion to impact. The quest goes on! 

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Legal Status

Tax-exempt charitable non-profit registered in Jordan; Tax-exempt charitable non-profit 501(c)(3) registered in the U.S.; Local NGO registrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka and Sudan. Local NGO registration is currently in progress in Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Republic of North Macedonia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Rwanda.

Year of registration

2007

BYLAWS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE

Yes

BYLAWS PROVIDED ON REQUEST

Yes

Contact

HQ LOCATION ADDRESS

Al Hussein Youth and Sport City
Amman 11196
Jordan

SOCIAL NETWORKS

WEBSITE

Visit official website

MAIN CONTACT EMAIL

info@gfp.ngo

+962 6 500 4600