MVJ joins the Alliance’s nonpartisan network of diverse international organizations aiming to combat violence in communities worldwide by building peace and understanding.
July 16, 2024 – Military Veterans in Journalism announces today it has joined the Alliance for Peacebuilding, a nonpartisan network of peacebuilding organizations that aims to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable peace in communities worldwide. As part of the Alliance, MVJ will work with a variety of international organizations to better counter violent extremist efforts and strengthen peacebuilding within military-connected communities.
The Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP), named the “number one influencer and change agent” among peacebuilding institutions worldwide, is a nonprofit and nonpartisan network of organizations working in 181 countries to prevent and reduce violent conflict and build sustainable peace. AfP cultivates a network to strengthen and advance the peacebuilding field, enabling peacebuilding organizations to achieve greater impact—tackling issues too large for any one organization to address alone.
MVJ joins the Alliance as part of MVJ’s Information Integrity Project, which aims to counter the spread of manipulative propaganda and violent extremist recruitment efforts in veteran and military communities. MVJ will participate in the network’s various endeavors in the counter-extremist space to learn about and implement prevention tactics across military communities. MVJ and AfP will also work together with the network to build more peaceful military-connected spaces, disrupting the normalization of targeted violence within these spaces.
The AfP network includes over 200 international organizations, each with a diverse focus and community, which come together to learn from each other and build peace worldwide. MVJ has previously worked with some of the Alliance’s member organizations, such as Project Over Zero, to train journalists on understanding and effectively countering violent extremist recruitment messaging in their reporting.
MVJ hopes this new membership will enable future successes in preventing veterans from becoming the targets of violent extremist recruitment efforts, both online and off.
