G7 Advocacy
ALLMEP partners bring our letter to the G7 to Pope Francis at Arena di Pace in Verona
One of ALLMEP’s primary objectives is to strengthen multilateral coordination and elevate the role of civil society peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine. Too often overlooked, these initiatives are essential to achieving any sustainable resolution. At the heart of this effort is our flagship goal: the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
One of ALLMEP’s primary objectives is to strengthen multilateral coordination and elevate the role of civil society peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine. Too often overlooked, these initiatives are essential to achieving any sustainable resolution. At the heart of this effort is our flagship goal: the establishment of an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
In pursuit of this goal, in June 2024 at the G7 Leaders Summit in Apulia, Italy, ALLMEP achieved one of its most significant milestones in promoting civil society peacebuilding and building multilateral government interest toward the creation of an the International Fund
Following a sustained, global campaign by ALLMEP, the leaders of the G7 states made an unprecedented commitment in their Leaders Communiqué, adopting ALLMEP’s proposed text verbatim, to prioritize civil society peacebuilding as a critical component of any diplomatic resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to coordinate and institutionalize support for it. The communiqué reads:
“We affirm our commitment to working together —and with other international partners—to closely coordinate and institutionalize our support for civil society peacebuilding efforts, ensuring that such efforts are part of a larger strategy to build the foundation necessary for a negotiated and lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
To achieve this milestone we led a letter-signing campaign which got signatures from 350 civil society organizations from around the world, 37 UK Parliamentarians and 22 Members of the European Parliament – from across the political spectrum – urging G7 leaders to make this historic change. This letter campaign culminated in a key endorsement by Pope Francis before a live audience of 12,000 people.
This G7 policy has been reiterated multiple times – during the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting at UNGA in September, and then again during the G7 Foreign Ministers in November, cementing it as a part of G7’s formal and collective policy for addressing this crisis.
ALLMEP has now begun to leverage this policy commitment for the G7 states. In July, we convened the deputy ambassadors to Israel of all of the G7 members—the first gathering of its kind we were told—to discuss how such donor state coordination could manifest. We also held a briefing for all donor countries, hosted by the EU in Tel Aviv, and are set to hold an identical briefing for Jerusalem Consulates/Ramallah Representative Offices. These events are intended to form the basis of a local Israel-Palestine donor coordination forum.
We are now focused on turning this policy shift into tangible action, driving progress toward the establishment of an International Fund. Our goal is for next year’s G7 Leaders’ Summit in Canada to secure new commitments that move us closer to making this vision a reality.
NGO Partners and Policymakers
In the spring of 2024, ALLMEP launched a global campaign to urge G7-leaders to adopt language in support of this goal. At the Global Leaders Summit in Apulia, Italy, the G7-partners adopted the following statement as part of their communiqué:
“We affirm our commitment to working together —and with other international partners—to closely coordinate and institutionalize our support for civil society peacebuilding efforts, ensuring that such efforts are part of a larger strategy to build the foundation necessary for a negotiated and lasting Israeli-Palestinian peace.”
