Who We Are

The purpose of the Transition, Conflict, and Peace Working Group (TCP) is to bring together relief, development, and peace practitioners in order to facilitate integrated and sustainable action to meet the needs of communities moving towards, in the midst of, or emerging from violent conflict arising from natural or manmade events.

TCP Goals

• Policy
  To explore and promote more effective policies and strategies for integrating relief, development and peace building in transition and conflict-affected environments.
  
• Practice
  To promote best practices in our programs by helping staff, partners and local communities seize windows of opportunity to strengthen local capacities for peace and develop durable solutions.
  
• Outreach
  To cultivate a community of expertise that serves as a technical resource, to engage in donor outreach, and to raise public awareness on transition, conflict and peace issues.

Background

The TCP is the result of a refinement in focus of the former Transition Working Group (TWG). The TWG was formed in 2000 in response to InterAction member interest in relief programming that addresses development issues during the emergency phase (developmental relief) as well as development activities designed to avert future disasters. The name of the working group was changed as conflict management emerged as a central interest of working group members with regard to transition settings.

Working Group Structure

The TCP is composed of a wide variety of participants to capitalize on innovative approaches to these issues among relief, development, and conflict resolution organizations. Regular attendance at TCP meetings includes member and non-member NGOs, think tanks, academics and U.S. Government agencies. Although general meetings are open, the TCP is led by a core group of a dozen InterAction members. The core group is responsible for maintaining the relevance of TCP activities to InterAction members. The TCP generally divides its work in two foci: policy and best practice. The core group is currently led by a small steering committee, comprising Rick Santos (Church World Service), Peter Gantz (Refugees International), Luisa Lopez (National Association of Social Workers), and Lisa Kammerud (IFES).