The mission of the Foundation for Post Conflict Development (FPCD) is to fulfill the Millennium Development Goals in post-conflict regions, where poverty and health challenges are compounded due to the fragile peace-building process. Through direct education, action and promotion of global partnerships for post-conflict development, FPCD has managed to build a youth center and a maternity clinic in Timor Leste in collaboration with the Government of Monaco, Red Cross and the United Nations Staff 1% for Development Fund.
As a not-for-profit organization, FPCD is dedicated to assist post conflict regions with projects on reconstruction, demobilization of child soldiers, reintegration of war veterans and cultural preservation. My special interest in that field is in partnerships between academia, corps diplomatique and businesses.
In addition to the United Nations and universities in New York City, London, Cambridge and Düsseldorf, the FPCD associates also work on a variety of projects with Alfred Mozer Stichting in Amsterdam, Düsseldorf Institute for Foreign and Security Policy, the National US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, the Clinton Global Initiative, and others. The scope of research projects is wide, encompassing, for example, the assessment of official education related policies in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan after the ceasefire agreement in 1994 as well as the best post-conflict practices based on the case of successful reconstruction and nation-building in Western Germany following World War II.
Next year, the FPCD will help address global health issues from a holistic perspective and to connect Harvard students with volunteer opportunities in post conflict countries, such as Timor Leste. In addition, there is always present optimism at the FPCD about building up special relationship with the Institute for the Study of International Organizations and the United Nations Program of Long Island University.
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