Fund the Purdue Peace Project (PPP) actions abroad. (Two books on locally-led peacebuilding are being written.)
Explore the use of PPP’s foreign experience to address group violence in the US.
Explore the possibility of developing national grassroots peace movements in countries in which PPP has multiple projects.
Help fund a paper on the subject by several locally-led peacebuilding practitioner organizations (under way).
Participate in working groups on the subject at AfP and PSFG.
Promote research on cost effectiveness to provide evidence on which to base resource allocation
Initiate and fund research on cost-effectiveness. (Work already initiated at FDG, Kroc School at the University of San Diego, and School for International Training, and by graduate students at Stanford, Hawaii, and Cornell).
Stimulate interest in research on cost-effectiveness elsewhere.
Initiate and fund studies relating to peacebuilding activities and disseminate the results (being done by a PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia).
By governments and government sponsored organizations
Private
Organizations engaged in research on war and peacebuilding
Fund a prize for best paper presenting ideas for effective new peacebuilding initiatives.
Help organize a small meeting to identify opportunities for transformational improvement in results achieved by workers for peace, including raising much more financial support.