Workshop Recommendations
Creating Coalitions for Peace

Recommendations to Civil Society:

• Acknowledge the fact that conflicts involve a variety of actors and that all must be included in the resolution process.
  
  
• Realize that the closure of democratic forums plays a vital role in the creation of conflicts.
  
  
• Support the development of solidarity peacebuilding movements concerned with the violence hampering social coexistence and public safety, bearing in mind that complex steps are required to reach agreements with the often unidentified parties responsible for this type of violence that destroys the social fabric, especially in major cities.

Recommendations to Governments:

• Implement mechanisms to ensure that civil society is fully involved in the peace process.
  
  
• Maximize efforts to find political solutions to conflicts.
  
  
• Provide stronger guarantees and conditions for peaceful coexistence and public safety and ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their rights fully.
  
  
• Promote dialogue as a privileged instrument for conflict resolution.
  
  
• Provide information on existing peace agreements in order support peacebuilding as well as ensure full compliance and close monitoring of these commitments with the participation of civil society.

Recommendations to International Organizations:

• Support the official elements of all peace processes; implement programmes to support and promote the participation of civil society, which is a fundamental element to the success of any peace process.
  
  
• Make every effort to pressure absentee parties (who play a major role in achieving and guaranteeing peace), such as the business sector and paramilitary groups, to make commitments to the peace process.
  
  
• Ensure the strengthening of the UN, the ideal world organization to seek and promote peace.