América Latina Genera. Knowledge Management for Gender Equity.
http://www.americalatinagenera.org/

América Latina Genera is an UNDP initiative that was born with the support of the Government of Japan. The project operates within UNDP’s regional cooperation framework for Latin America. Through the virtual knowledge city on gender, the project pretends to facilitate access to information and knowledge on gender topics in the Latin American Spanish-speaking region, as well as to promote greater interchange and articulation among the actors working in favor of gender equality. América Latina Genera is convinced that knowledge is an undeniable means for achieving gender equality, overcome the obstacles, and improve our practices for implementing the gender streaming strategy adopted in the Platform for Action of Beijing (1995).

Beyond Intractability
http://www.beyondintractability.org

Free knowledge base on more constructive approaches to destructive conflict. University of Colorado.

Centro de Colaboración Cívica
http://www.colaboracioncivica.org/

Civil, non-partisan and non-profit association whose mission is to strengthen democracy in Mexico, developing capacity for dialogue, cooperation and conflict management for public interest issues. The CCC applies diverse and successful methodologies developed by the international organization Partners for Democratic Change A. C.

CRIES
http://www.cries.org

The Regional Coordinator of Economic and Social Research was established in Managua in 1982. It is a network comprising more than 70 research centers, think tanks, NGOs, foundations, professional associations, experts and academics from Latin America and the Caribbean. Its mandate is to promote economic, political, environmental, and social research, as well as the participation in public debate, empowerment and advocacy of civil society in the regional and global agenda.

Democracia & Desarrollo Internacional (D&D Internacional)
http://www.ddint.org/indexin.html

Non profit civilian association located in Lima, Peru. It emerged as a think tank in order to educate the population and to influence in the design of public policies that are directed to strengthen democracy and to obtain a sustainable and equitable development in the country of a long reach.

Democratic Governance UNDP Bolivia
http://www.gobernabilidad.org.bo

More than an institutional site, it aims at providing spaces for disseminating activities and documents of institutions working on Democratica Governance in and about Bolivia. This site pretends to constitute a permanent exploration in the intersection of technology, democratic governance, and creativity.

Fundación Cambio Democrático
http://www.cambiodemocratico.org

Non-profit and non-partisan organization of the Argentinean civil society working with a vision of a pacific, fair and participative society. In order to achieve this, it develops capacities in communities for the prevention and democratic transformation of conflicts, and generates conditions for a sustainable human development. Their objectives include: to produce knowledge on conflict transformation and peace building; to have a bearing on the design and implementation of public policies using democratic dialogue tools and mechanisms for conflict transformation; as well as to develop capacities of social, private, academic and governmental actors in this type of tools. It is a member of the global network Partners for Democratic Change International.

Fundación Los Seres Sol - Liderazgo de Paz
http://www.losseressol.org

Non-profit organization that works in neighborhoods and communities of scarce economic resources in Dominican Republic, training men and women on peace culture and leadership. We conceive social transformation from personal transformation. The first step is training on human values, self-esteem and peace culture. Further on, we train on collaborative leadership, alliance and coalition building, peaceful mobilization, dialogue and negotiation. Once trained, then we organize the community so they build a vision of their neighborhood or community, a coalition of neighbor committees and popular organizations, as well as a strategic and action plan to reach their objectives. Each person trained is called Peace Leader.

Fundación Mediadores en Red
http://www.mediadoresenred.org.ar/

Interdisciplinary foundation made up by and for mediators. Its purpose is to consolidate and spread methods for pacific conflict resolution and consensus building in diverse scopes of the social network. Currently, it includes eighteen nodes along the Argentinean Republic, and has representatives in Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

Fundación Soros Guatemala (FSG)
http://www.soros.org.gt/

Organism of the Guatemalan civil society that has the strength to count with financial and technical resources to support other like-minded social actors. The FSG belongs to International Network for an Open Society, OSI, which is made up of more than 50 national foundations, regional initiatives and global programs in different parts of the world, that share the vision of contributing to the emergence of more democratic, equitable, just and humane societies. The OSI Network provides consultations, training and other services and additional financing to the funds granted for the implementation of its strategies.

Fundación UNIR Bolivia
http://www.unirbolivia.org/

Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, ICAR
http://icar.gmu.edu

ICAR is an innovative academic resource for people and institutions worldwide. It comprises a community of scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, alumni, practitioners, and organizations in the field of peace making and conflict resolution.

Intercooperation- Swiss Foundation for Development and International Cooperation
http://www.intercooperation.ch/

Leading Swiss non-profit making organization engaged in development and international cooperation since 1982. It is governed by 21 organisations representing the development community, civil society and the private sector. Intercooperation is both an implementing and an advisory organization, providing professional resources and knowledge combined with social commitment. It specializes in rural development, process competences and services being grouped around three principal working domains: natural resource management (agriculture and forestry), rural economy, and local governance and civil society. Intercooperation collaborates with partner organizations in more than twenty developing and transition countries.

Interpeace
http://www.interpeace.org/

International peacebuilding organization that helps divided and conflicted societies build sustainable peace, reinforcing local capacities to overcome deep social divisions and to address conflict in non-violent ways. It works with local peacebuilding teams to facilitate research-based dialogue processes with all sectors of society.

Mesa de Diálogo
http://www.prodialogo.blogspot.com

Virtual space of dialogue for sharing information related to dialogue and conflict prevention and transformation. It contains several thematic sections on social conflicts, a list of resources like the specialized publications related to these subjects, and other website links of interest to specialist, among others.

MSP Resource Portal: building facilitation capacity
http://portals.wi.wur.nl/msp

Run by Wageningen International, the Multi-Stakeholder Process (MSP) Resource Portal is a rich resource for practitioners on building capacity to facilitate multi stakeholder processes and societal-level learning. It provides, in a very accessible way, a wide variety of concepts, methods and tools to create learning processes, facilitation tips, examples, literature and links.

Partners for Democratic Change
http://www.partnersglobal.org

International organization committed to building sustainable local capacity to advance civil society and a culture of change and conflict management worldwide.

PDDL- Decentralization and Local Development
http://www.pddl-intercooperation.org

Governance initiative financed by Cosude and executed by Intercooperation in Ecuador. It is a governance project with a territorial anchorage that covers the regional and national dimensions (micro, meso and macro). It promotes the development of participative systems with decentralized management as a way of promoting local development.

Peace and Collaborative Development Network
http://internationalpeaceandconflict.ning.com

Free professional networking site with over 6550 members from around the world to foster dialogue and sharing of resources in international development, conflict resolution, gender mainstreaming, human rights, social entrepreneurship and related fields.

PRODIÁLOGO, Prevención y Resolución de Conflictos
http://www.prodialogo.org

Civil organization specialized in conflict prevention and resolution that, through consensus building, achieves to channel the intrinsically renewing energy of this phenomenon and converts it into a valuable source of opportunities, a factor of transformation and a generator of learning and value. The role of PRODIÁLOGO is that of an impartial third party that bases its actions on the principles of impartiality, transparence, confidentiality, integrity, and cooperation. Peru.

PROPAZ
http://www.propaz.org.gt

Public-service private institution, independent and without any political or economic conditioning. We work for consolidating peace, democracy and development, and for strengthening the national public sphere, with emphasis on prevention and resolution of public conflicts. As an institution, we aim to become an entity with legitimacy, credibility, efficacy and efficiency in the facilitation of social change processes. We deliver our services to any institution and person from the public sector, the organized civil society, the indigenous peoples, the business sector and citizens in general, who are interested in promoting and channeling citizen coexistence from the potentials of diversity.

Reos Partners
http://www.reospartners.com

International organisation dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective action in complex social systems. We organise, design and facilitate results-oriented multi-stakeholder partnerships, within and across business, government and civil society organisations. We help stakeholders act together, across their differences, to address their most vital and complex challenges. Reos Partners works in many parts of the world on many types of challenges, helping people work together fluidly, in partnership. Our name Reos comes from the Greek “rheos,” which means flow or stream.

The Esquel Group
http://www.ESQUEL.org

Consultancies on deliberative democracy and development issues, particularly at a local level.

The Peace Media Clearing House
http://peacemedia.usip.org

A joint project of the U.S. Institute of Peace Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding, and Georgetown University’s Conflict Resolution Program.

UN Peacemaker
http://peacemaker.un.org

Virtual School for Latin America, UNDP
http://www.escuelapnud.org/public/index.php

UNDP’s Virtual School for Latin America and the Caribbean provides training in applied sciences for social transformation directed toward two academic areas, which are the basic paradigms of UNDP: Human Development and Democratic Governance. The mission of the Virtual School is to foster capacities and facilitate the development of knowledge and skills of strategic actors for strengthening democratic governance and contributing to human development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The purpose of the School is to favor the development of the people, by the people and for the people, strengthening their capacities and using information and communication technologies for building networks and for contributing to the education of new leaders.