The Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) is a network established to build strong partnerships across sectors and different disciplines, organizations, agencies and institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to advance the agenda on and investment in early childhood. The ARNEC early childhood development (ECD) and peace building working group brings together experts, policy makers and practitioners to explore and promote the added value of ECD on peace building/social cohesion activities and, reciprocally, the added value of peace building/social cohesion on ECD interventions. The group provides a specific focus on ECD and peace building in the Asia Pacific region.