PPTI.
Building foundations for lasting peace, democracy and inclusive development.
PPTI believes that lasting peace, development and advancing societies result and are sustained from strong underlying and solid foundations. Through direct engagement, PPTI supports citizens, communities and governments to develop and strengthen this core muscle upon which peace, stability, inclusive growth and development will thrive. Linking interdisciplinary theory, knowledge and practice, we promote peace, human rights and freedoms, democracy, rule of law, justice and inclusive development. PPTI's commitment to women's rights, equality and empowerment is central to who we are. PPTI works with governments, civil society, academic institutions, policy think tanks and other international organizations to design and implement transformative solutions to intractable conflicts and problems in fragile and conflict affected states. PPTI does so through providing analysis, advice, mentoring, technical assistance and capacity building along the continuum of peacemaking, peace building, constitution making, law making, democratic state building, rule of law and development across multiple sectors.
Contact
➤ Offices
Washington D.C.
Los Angeles, CA
➤ EMAILS
April@pptilaw.org
Robin@pptilaw.org
Sara@pptilaw.org
Our Work
Peacebuilding and POlitical Transitions
PPTI recognizes that both peacebuilding and peaceful, democratic political transitions are key to overcoming state fragility and conflict. State fragility is a primary cause of protracted conflict. PPTI provides specifically tailored advice, support and assistance in peace process design and management, as well as support to key actors in the peacebuilding process. This work includes, for instance, assistance and support to transition roadmap development, national reconciliation, transitional justice, human security focused security sector reform, and stabilization.
Law and inclusive development
Grounded in law and development theory, PPTI believes that contemporary state practice requires that state policy be formulated in terms of law, particularly in order to create an enabling environment to foster socio-economic development processes. PPTI strives to equip stakeholders to translate seriously intended, publicly avowed policies into effectively implementable law. Our approach to law and development is inherently strategic, multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral, and utilizes inclusive growth diagnostic and critical political economy approaches to policy analysis, design, innovation and integration. PPTI focuses on building stakeholders' capacity to ensure that legislative agenda design and legislative drafting are oriented to inclusive economic growth and development as an intrinsic part of state building and democratic governance.
TRanformative constitution making
The core idea of transformative constitutionalism is change to achieve a truly just society, legal system and state. Constitutional process design is critical to achieving an enduring, nationally owned process that is inclusive, representative, credible and legitimate. Equally critical to the transformative impact of a constitution is its substantive design and the content of the constitutional text itself. PPTI utilizes the methodologies of comparative law and evidence based problem solving to design constitutional process and substantive options based on unique country circumstances.
Peace leadership development
Peace requires a true meeting of hearts and minds and a recognition of the acute need for trauma healing in conflict affected and post conflict societies at all levels in order to achieve meaningful national reconciliation. Based on this knowledge, PPTI incorporates space and support for this throughout its programming. Noting this void in current modes of assistance, PPTI provides confidential leadership mentoring and support as well as specifically tailored support for intercommunal healing in support of national reconciliation and lasting peace.
State building and Democratic Governance
Political transitions, particularly after conflict, often require re-constituting the state and state institutions in accordance with principles of democratic governance - transparency, accountability and participation. Democratic governance itself is based on the rule of law, and therefore, also in this aspect of its work, PPTI views law making processes as critical to state building and democratization, especially in transitional and post-transitional contexts. PPTI therefore focuses on executive and legislative institutional strengthening, inter-branch cooperation, governance systems development as well as political process strengthening.
Rule of Law, judicial branch, JUSTICE and legal system strengthening
PPTI views the rule of law and democratic governance as intrinsically, inextricably bound together. For instance governance may be assessed in terms of the degree to which it achieves and delivers security, promotes prosperity, and ensures prosperity is shared. The role of the law and the justice sector are critical in ensuring these outcomes are achieved, particularly in fragile and conflict affected states. PPTI focuses on judicial branch design, functioning, processes, judicial training, support to bar associations, law schools, lawyer training and education, legal aid, and access to justice, including police, correctional and security sector reform. A core part of PPTI's work in this area also involves integrating and reconciling different legal systems, such as customary, religious and secular laws with new constitutional mandates as well as legal reform in line with constitutional mandates through implementing legislation.
“Law is policy’s operative expression. Without laws, government cannot govern.”
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle - the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”