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Electoral Integrity Initiative

Deepening Democracy: Elections and Peacebuilding

The Electoral Integrity Initiative is pleased to present its new policy paper, “Elections and Peacebuilding: Why the timing and sequencing of transitional elections matter”.

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Extremely Together: The Guide

Countering Violent Extremism

A peer-to-peer guide for young people, by Extremely Together

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Advisory Commission on Rakhine State

Advisory Commission on Rakhine State presents interim recommendations

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Extremely Together

Young people coming together against violent extremism

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Combatting hunger

The African Food Systems Initiative

Empowering African farmers.

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EII Policy Brief
Extremely Together: The Guide
Advisory Commission on Rakhine State
Extremely Together
Combatting hunger

Mobilising Political Will

Curious about what we do and how we do it? This short animation explains the Kofi Annan Foundation’s mission to mobilise political will to overcome threats to peace, development and human rights.

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Our Mission

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The knowledge needed to solve many of the world´s pressing problems already exists.
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What holds us back is lack of leadership and political will to bring about change.
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We mobilise political will to overcome threats to peace, development and human rights...
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...by convening and engaging leaders across the world. These are our projects:

Building lasting peace

Combatting hunger

Changing drug policy

Promoting youth leadership

Mediation and crisis resolution

Supporting democracy and elections with integrity

Extremely Together - The Guide

Countering violent extremism

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Latest news

Statement on Hungarian Anti-immigration Campaign

13 July 2017

I am deeply concerned by the recent anti-immigration poster campaign launched in Hungary. Rather than addressing migration’s very real challenges,...
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Why Are Only Poor Countries Taking Refugees?

20 June 2017

This article by Kofi Annan originally appeared in Time Magazine on 20 June 2017. It has now been almost two...
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Kofi Annan Foundation welcomes inclusion of snakebite in World Health Organization Neglected Tropical Diseases portfolio

19 June 2017

The Kofi Annan Foundation welcomes the decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to add snakebite envenoming to the Neglected...
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Delivering global food and nutrition security in a sustainable way

16 June 2017

This speech was given by Kofi Annan on 15 June 2017 at the Nutreco AgriVision and AquaVision Conference in the...
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Appel urgent en faveur d’une transition pacifique et démocratique en République démocratique du Congo

15 June 2017

En tant que dirigeants africains attachés à la démocratie, nous sommes profondément consternés par la situation politique qui prévaut en...
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