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  • Promoting Youth Leadership

    Preventing Violent Extremism in Somalia and Uganda

    Thanks to our Young Leaders, Extremely Together is scaling up its youth-led activities to prevent violent extremism in Somalia and Uganda.

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  • Kofi Annan Foundation Board

    The New Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation Board

    The interim chair of the Foundation, Ambassador Jenö Staehelin and the entire board are pleased to announce the appointment of Elhadj As Sy as the new chairman.

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  • An Intergenerational Dialogue

    Introducing the Kofi Annan Changemakers

    Together with Dr Jeno Staehelin and the Graduate Institute of Geneva, our newest initiative will bring together young and seasoned changemakers.

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  • The Retreat of Democracy in Central & Southern Africa

    Kofi Annan Foundation’s Head of Elections and Democracy Sebastian Brack shares his thoughts following our recent conference in Cape Town, South Africa.

    The three main takeaways


  • Annual Report 2018

    Building on an Extraordinary Legacy

    The Kofi Annan Foundation has designed and launched initiatives to assist countries and communities move forward on the road to peace. Find out how we do it in our Annual Report.

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  1. Preventing Violent Extremism
  2. New Chairman
  3. Our Latest Initiative
  4. Democracy in Retreat
  5. Annual Report 2018
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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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    Pillar 1 - Kofi Annan Foundation

    The knowledge needed to solve many of the world´s pressing problems already exists.

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    Pillar 2 - Kofi Annan Foundation

    What holds us back is lack of leadership and political will to bring about change.

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    Pillar 3 - Kofi Annan Foundation

    We mobilise political will to overcome threats to peace, development and human rights...

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    Pillar 4 - Kofi Annan Foundation

    ...by convening and engaging leaders across the world. These are our projects:

Our Areas of Work

Electoral Integrity

The Kofi Annan Commission

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Impressions

  • Kofi Annan's last mission, supporting fair and legitimate elections in Zimbabwe 
  • Kofi Annan blows out the candles on his 80th birthday, with help from his grandson Atta 
  • Interview with BBC HARDtalk for Kofi Annan's 80th birthday in April 2018 
  • With young people from the Foundation's Extremely Together initiative 
  • Kofi Annan presents the Rakhine Commission's final report to the world media in Yangon 
  • Kofi Annan with Barack Obama 
  • In Burkina Faso with Mrs Nane Annan 
  • The Case for Citizen leadership 

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AGRAAfrica Progress PanelCartooning for PeaceUNDEFInternational Crisis GroupOne Young WorldBooks for AfricaInterpeaceBill & Melinda Gates FoundationLee Kuan Yew School of Public PolicyIDEAMo Ibrahim FoundationCoalition for The International Criminal CourtGraduate Institute GenevaWorld Leadership Alliance – Club de MadridEuropean UnionInitiatives of Change SwitzerlandIDPCOSIWAhdUnited Nations FoundationThe EldersPrix PictetICTJOpen Society FoundationsGlobal Commission on Drug Policy