Mission

CPA is an independent, non-partisan social-welfare organization committed to the promotion of genuine peace and lasting reconciliation in Afghanistan. CPA members believe that war in Afghanistan is neither in the interest of its people nor in the interest of its neighbors or the wider world. We believe that after four decades of continuing bloodshed and devastation, time has arrived for all Afghan patriots and their foreign friends to rise and, together, say no to war and war mongers, whose business is trading in blood and human dignity.  It is also time for all Afghans to say no to the prejudices and injustices of the past.

War in Afghanistan has cost its peoples millions of lives, has maimed and crippled hundreds of thousands of its men, women, and children, has weakened its human bonds, has destroyed its diverse arts, traditions, and cultures, has devastated its natural environment and ecosystems, and has led to abject poverty and hunger among millions of its citizens. War has pushed Afghanistan into the quagmire of a chronic failed state unable to sustain itself and its people, forced millions of its citizen to flee for their lives and become refugees, and has made the country a breeding ground of terrorist training and egregious acts, organized crime, illicit drug trade, and human trafficking.

CPA pursues the goal of first helping to stop the war and next helping to rebuild Afghanistan’s socio-economic foundations. We are committed not only to help bring peace and reconciliation to the country but also help rebuild the spirits and lives of its peoples, spirits and lives that have been shattered by the long war and its consequences.

Using non-violent means, non-violent resistance, public-awareness tools, and peace education, CPA fights for the rights of all the peoples of Afghanistan, including their political, economic, cultural, and religious rights. CPA firmly stands by the side of the Afghan women and girls, as well as other marginalized groups of the Afghan society, who are being suppressed in the name of religion or indigenous tradition. We work shoulder by shoulder with those Afghan and non-Afghan organizations who fight for the rights and dignity of the human person. We reject violence in thought, violence in speech, and violence in practice. We fight violence with non-violence, which, we firmly believe, is just, and will win the battle tomorrow, if not today.