Burma/Myanmar - EBO Myanmar & Pyidaungsu Institute

 7 Common Spaces in Myanmar have evolved as informal dialogue spaces to engage the various levels of society in the peace process and to support the national dialogue. The evolving  common spaces together with EBO were the key actors to facilitate the nationwide Ceasefire agreement, the Deed of Commitment and the Framework for political dialogue.

 Website: http://www.euro-burma.eu/

 Website: http://en.pyidaungsuinstitute.org/

Sri Lanka - One Text Initative

 The One Text Initiative in Sri Lanka was founded in 2003 as a confidential multi-party 1.5 track Peace Negotiations Process, following the breakdown of the official facilitated negotiations. It  facilitated more than 120 joint understandings over the past 13 years and survived 7 governments and a brutal civil war. It also brought all the Muslim political parties together for the “Peace  secretariat for Muslims”; and created a joint mechanism for the three Peace Secretariats to meet and exchange, including: the Muslim, LTTE and the government. Today, it is a space for  multi-stakeholder dialogue processes, fully owned by the stakeholders, for policies and option generations.

Website: http://www.onetext.org/

Lebanon - Common Space Initiative

The Common Space Initiative (CSI) in Beirut, was created in 2009 to provide technical support to the Formal National Dialogue and evolved to support Track 1.5 policy dialogues. It acted as a safety net and managed to convene all political stakeholders around root cause of issues, when the formal talks broke down. It also facilitated the drafting of the Baabda Declaration and the Lebanon dissociation policy from regional conflicts. Today it supports policy dialogues around Lebanon’s structural issues, local peace building initiatives in Syria and regional reflections between stakeholders in the Arab world.

Website: http://commonspaceinitiative.org/

Nepal - Nepal Transition to Peace

The Nepal Transition to Peace Institute was created in 2004 as a Track 1.5 non-formal dialogue and convened all stakeholders over 10 years, when various attempts for National negotiations failed and during some of the most turbulent times in Nepal. It facilitated the negotiation of Nepal ́s ceasefire agreement, the comprehensive peace accord, and convened all stakeholders dialogues to resolve deadlocks in the drafting process of the new constitution over the past 7 years. Today it provides space where stakeholders meet to work jointly on option generation issues post-constitution signing.

Website: http://nttpinstitute.org/