The Permanent Peace Movement (PPM) is an independent Lebanese, non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1989 at the height of the Lebanese civil war by a group of young university students unified by their common vision of the future and their aversion to war. They considered that the peaceful means for conflict resolution are the most useful of all, and once exhausted, one should resort to non-violent means and never to violence. PPM works on building peace in the local, national and international communities through spreading the culture of peace and transforming/preventing conflicts. It also strives to empower individuals and institutions enabling them to play their respective roles in this field. Permanent Peace Movement (PPM) is a member of several regional and international networks active in the field of Peacebuilding, violence aversion and conflict prevention, among them the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) - PPM is the global partnership MENA secretariat: http://www.gppac.net/regional-liaison-officers