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Foundation For Post Conflict Development

Our vision is for post conflict communities and g7+ nations to transition from fragility to stability and Monaco organizations.

The FPCD is a boutique NGO that was founded in 2005 to help achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. As the international community has evolved, so has FPCD and the organization’s focus shifted in 2015 to assist in fulfilling the newly defined UN’s “Post 2015 Development Agenda.”

The FPCD is managed by a lean team of volunteers from around the world: The CEO manages operations, wi

th support from four Board Directors, UN representatives, and interns between the U.S. The FPCD is also supported by the International Advisory Board, a cohort of international leaders in peace and development who support the initiatives and projects of the FPCD. Our core team brings together individuals that have dedicated their life’s work to peace and progress through many different disciplines including executive leadership advising, philanthropy, environmental advocacy and sustainability, communications, and government affairs. Our impact has a multi-disciplinary approach that will allow for holistic, solutions-based, and high impact work in the area of maternal health and youth empowerment.

08/18/2026

Peace-Building Beyond the Conference Room

The formal architecture of international peacebuilding is essential. Ceasefire agreements, truth and reconciliation commissions, transitional justice frameworks — these provide the structures within which post-conflict societies can begin to rebuild. But structures without relationships are fragile. In our latest blog post, we explore what peace-building looks like beyond the conference room — in the communities where it actually has to happen. We look at all eight post-conflict nations in The Peace Cookbook and what their food traditions reveal about the ground-level work of recovery.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/peace-building-beyond-the-conference-room/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

08/14/2026

The Table as Common Ground

One of the recurring challenges in post-conflict dialogue is finding spaces that belong to no one side. Formal settings carry history. Institutional environments signal power. Even the choice of location can become a point of contention before a single word has been spoken. Food sidesteps many of these dynamics. In our latest blog post, we explore how each of the ten chapters of The Peace Cookbook offers its own version of common ground — from Afghan hospitality that precedes political affiliation, to Cyprus's culinary traditions that cross the line that politics has drawn.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/the-table-as-common-ground/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

07/30/2026

Lucky to be working with great colleagues!

07/23/2026

How to Use This Cookbook

The Peace Cookbook can be used the way any cookbook is used: as a practical guide to preparing food. But cultural envoy Wheeler del Torro and FPCD hope it will also be used in other ways. As the foundation for a dinner party that becomes a cultural exchange. As an educational resource in classrooms and university seminars. As a fundraising tool for organizations working in post-conflict communities. As a personal practice of curiosity and connection. Our latest blog post explores each of these uses in depth.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/how-to-use-this-cookbook/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

07/10/2026

What Resilience Tastes Like

Resilience is a word that gets used frequently in post-conflict work. Sometimes so frequently that it begins to lose its meaning. The Peace Cookbook is, among other things, an attempt to give it back. The food traditions in this book survived displacement, destruction, and the deliberate targeting of cultural identity that so often accompanies conflict. They persisted. Carried by families across borders, recreated from memory, adapted to new circumstances without losing their essential character. In our latest blog post, we look at what resilience actually tastes like across all eight post-conflict chapters.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/what-resilience-tastes-like/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

07/09/2026

Call for Entries: Stories from the Table

Around every table, there’s a story of hope. The Foundation for Post-Conflict Development invites you to share yours in our new global photography and storytelling initiative, inspired by The Peace Cookbook.

Submit one photograph and a short reflection (300–500 words) on how food has preserved identity, rebuilt community, or opened the door to peace in your life. A family recipe is welcome too. No professional experience needed — we’re looking for authentic voices, not perfect pictures.

Selected entries will join a permanent digital exhibition and be featured in a digital vernissage on culinary diplomacy and peacebuilding.

🗓️ Deadline: August 3 at 7 PM ET
🏆 Winners announced: August 10
✍️ Submit here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWC2DJcY8DzgKZB4M2Iy43szQ5EYK0alXY52S-TqaX1u4fSQ/viewform

Peace can begin with a shared meal. Show us how. 🕊️

06/27/2026

🗞️ May Newsletter Highlights - A Memorable Dinner With Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia

The Foundation for Post Conflict Development (FPCD) is proud to share exciting updates:

🇷🇸 On May 15, the FPCD team had the profound honour of being welcomed to The Royal Compound of Belgrade and of sharing a memorable dinner with Their Royal Highnesses, Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine of Serbia.

📖 The same day, the FPCD also launched its Peace Cookbook Blog to offer a glimpse of the Peace Cookbook articles, which will officially launch on September 21, 2026.

🤝 Earlier in March, Claudia Abate, Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Post Conflict Development, was honoured to be named as a Cooperative for Humanity Global Ambassador.

From high-level representation to cultural diplomacy initiatives, this edition highlights our lasting partnerships and our shared commitment to sustainable development.

Read the full newsletter here:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/eBDNPTaa

06/24/2026

We’re excited to share some exciting news! The Foundation for Post Conflict Development has been evaluated by Charity Navigator, the USA’s largest charity evaluator, and earned a Four-Star Rating. This is the highest possible rating on Charity Navigator, an independent third-party evaluator, which validates our organization’s effectiveness and reliability.

This milestone achievement for the Foundation for Post Conflict Development couldn’t have happened without you and your support. Thank you for being part of our family as contributors, funders, and volunteers. Your trust and support help us make a difference for the communities in post-conflict and developing settings we serve.

Learn more about Charity Navigator and our rating here:
🔗 https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/202737116

Thank you for being an integral part of our mission!

06/20/2026

The Diplomacy of the Everyday

Not every act of diplomacy happens in a formal setting. Some of the most consequential relationship-building in international affairs has taken place over meals, in living rooms, in the informal margins of official events. Diplomats know this. So do the community leaders, aid workers, and peacebuilders who operate far from the headlines. The Peace Cookbook creates a framework for what we call the diplomacy of the everyday: the idea that ordinary people, in ordinary settings, can participate in the work of building a more connected and peaceful world. Our latest blog post explores what that looks like in practice.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/the-diplomacy-of-the-everyday/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

06/03/2026

Why FPCD Built a Cookbook

We have spent more than 20 years working in post-conflict environments. We know that the hardest part of peacebuilding is rarely the negotiation. It is the long, unglamorous work of rebuilding trust between people who have been told, often for generations, that the other side is the enemy. That work requires tools. Formal ones, certainly. But also informal ones — spaces where people can encounter each other outside of the roles conflict has assigned them. In our latest blog post, we explain why FPCD built a cookbook. And why we believe The Peace Cookbook, winner of Best in the World at the 32nd Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, is one of the most important things we have ever done.

🔗 Read it now at: https://www.postconflictdev.org/why-fpcd-built-a-cookbook/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

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