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The New York Peacebuilding Group, a gathering of organisations (the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, the International Peace Institute, Interpeace, PAX, Peace Direct, the Quaker United Nations Office, and World Vision) engaged on various peace-related issues at the UN and in country hosted local civil society representatives from Burundi, the Central African Republic, Guatemala, Liberia, Mali, South Africa, and Timor Leste in New York. The purpose of the visit was to meet with the panel experts conducting the reviews of the UN's Peace Operations and Peacebuilding Architecture. The local representatives shared their community-level peacebuilding experience and perspectives with the panelists in order to contribute to the improvement of UN peace practices. The three-day consultation also included a series of workshop meetings at Quaker House and a panel event at the International Peace Institute.