Established in 2002 as a non-profit, nonpartisan civil society organization, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP)-Ghana has a network of over 130 grassroots civil society organizations across the country, and is engaged in a wide range of education, peace and conflict re-search, gender-based (including women, youth and vulnerable groups) peacebuilding, extractive industry, and human security early warning and response activities.