Team Members:

• Liza Viall
• Edward Kamara
• Alanna Hartzek
• Melanie Dean
• Anne Creter

Summary: We discussed many different ideas of how to build strategic alliances. The many themes that came out of the brainstorming were to have a regional person in charge of contacting regional organizations, to have a GA/UN working group to generate more of a GA presence at the UN, and to rely on the relationships of GA members to create a database or list of influential people that the GA can contact.

Action Tasks:

• Synergize organizations’ goals to create connections
• Contact parliament, civil society groups, legislative committee and bill drafting in Sierra Leone
• GA/UN working group
• Representative for each region
• Sign up sheet for UN working group
• Contact University for Peace, Global College, United World College, and EARTH to create a student movement
• Template letter for ambassadors and government representatives
• Template letter for business
• Contact list of influential people

Prototype #1: UN System & GA Connections

• Schedule meeting at UN
• Resolution for DoP & MoP
• Connecting to reach Millennium Development Goals (system experts)
• Relationships with UN ambassadors (i.e. Tony Jenkins-Global campaign for Peace Education: jenkinsetc.columbia.edu)
• Contact NGLS (NGO Coordinating Services)
• UN mandated University for Peace
• Use Oscar Arias to promote cause
• UN Peacebuilding commission/fund
• DoP and Governance at country levels
• Celebrity Figures (Angelina Jolie)
• Walk Disney, Epcot Center, education videos
• Large philanthropies and socially conscious firms

Prototype #2: Job Advertisement

Job Description:

The Global Alliance is searching for a team of motivated, amazing individuals to make a difference in the world.

Job responsibilities:

• Identify key organizations in your assigned region, i.e. UN, heads of churches, heads of schools, mosques, synagogues, etc.
• Attend and organize conferences, exposure trips throughout the region
• Map and contact all regional peace groups
• Contact local business and large TNCs with Corporate Social Responsibility
• Contact Ambassadors
• Organize International Peace Day celebration and other social public events
• Translate materials into regional languages
• Contact local gov’t for lobbying and advocacy
• Create regional/national GA resource centers
• Contact local media and regular contributors

Additional Notes

• Connect with Olympics committee
• UN interface working group
• Systems (Global) experts
• Country specific identification of challenges to meet human needs/economic needs (heads of state)
• Countries with MoP & DoP’s host international peace day events through embassies and invite other ambassadors
• Multilingual website and materials
• Invite universal participation on the internet
• Press release of templates for campaigns
• Focalizer coordinator
• Host summits in lesser economically powerful countries
• Mapping of peace friendly organizations and key partners for GA
• All summit attendees do word of mouth campaigns
• Micro financing experts
• Public displays during summit
• Traveling conferences/GA tours
• Have a regional coordinator or “searcher” for alliances
• Cross fertilizer conference initiatives/programming/promotion
• GA representation at other conferences internationally