The first Gulf War ends  ,  Iraq mourns 150 thousand deaths. A group of pacifists decides that saying “no” to that war is not enough. Something must be done to compensate the Iraqi population:  thus,  A Bridge to Baghdad is born , which after a few years takes the name of  A Bridge For .

Among the first solidarity actions launched, in addition to the supply of medicines and the construction of a water purification plant in the south of the country, Un Ponte Per promotes initiatives to raise awareness of Iraqi culture and break the stereotype of the "enemy people". Among these, the  Franco Battiato concert  in Baghdad in support of the hospital in Basra.

We want to send 60 children to the hospital . With this slogan, Un Ponte Per launches the campaign to treat Iraqi children suffering from serious illnesses in Italy, thanks to the collaboration with the Niguarda Hospital in Milan.

A Bridge For starts  school twinning between Italian and Iraqi schools: letters, photos and small gifts began to be exchanged between the 30 schools involved. But also lots of school supplies. A thirty-year commitment is born in Italian schools with the Education for Peace  programs  .

Silence also kills. Embargo=War . A Bridge For launches a campaign to denounce the effects of the embargo on the Iraqi population. A growing commitment that continues until the early 2000s when UPP  imports and distributes dates in violation of the embargo : it is the first breaking of the embargo, an important act of  national civil disobedience  .

The campaign  Un Ponte per Diyarbakir  was born to denounce the living conditions of the Kurdish people in Turkish Kurdistan and to make their culture and history known. Thanks to this campaign, Un Ponte Per realized in 2003 the first international cooperation intervention in the area:  The women and children's house of Dogubayazit , a multipurpose center for health, education and cultural services.

A Bridge for Shatila is born  , a new solidarity campaign launched towards the Palestinian population in Lebanon, thanks to which meetings and delegations are organized to raise public awareness on the living conditions in the Palestinian camps.  Family Happiness is launched , the first Distance Support program, still active today.

The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia begins: after Iraq, another war in which Italy takes part. The campaign  A Bridge to Belgrade is born , thanks to which health facilities are created and medicines and humanitarian aid are sent, as well as delegations of pacifists and journalists. The Distance Support  Svetlost is also born , still active today.

Fabio Alberti, then President of Un Ponte Per, speaks in front of the largest crowd of demonstrators the world has ever seen: in Rome in the square together with 3 million people,  to say NO to the war in Iraq . That same day a delegation of activists from Un Ponte Per demonstrates in the streets of Baghdad.

Following the burning and looting of the National Library and Historical Archives in Baghdad, Un Ponte Per launched the program  La Casa dei Libri  to renovate the premises, restore manuscripts and train library staff. A commitment that continues to this day with the defense of the  cultural heritage of minorities  and the  preservation of Iraqi archaeological sites .

In Baghdad  , Occupation Watch was born , an international observatory on military occupation, in which Un Ponte Per participates. In Italy, Il Ponte also launched  Osservatorio Iraq , an independent newspaper that for ten years carried out important research and investigation work on the Italian occupation in Iraq and the effects of the war.

The two Italian and two Iraqi workers of Un Ponte Per, kidnapped on September 7 in Baghdad, are finally  freed  . 21 days and 21 nights of interminable and difficult times come to an end, marked by fear, silence, anxiety, but also by appeals, mobilizations and so much solidarity from Italy and the Middle East.

A Bridge for Amman is born  . The association expands its intervention to Jordan to support Iraqis fleeing the civil war and since 2011 the thousands of Syrians who have found refuge in the country. It collaborates with local organizations for the rights and protection of women and minors, specializing its work towards disability and female empowerment.

Following the Israeli aggression against the Lebanese and Palestinian population in Lebanon, Un Ponte Per launches the  Lebanon Emergency campaign . Through the support of local partners, UPP is able to distribute basic aid. An emergency that recurs less than a year later due to the conflict that broke out around the Nahr el-Bared camp.

The path started by Un Ponte Per in 2004 to break the isolation of Iraqi activism reaches an important milestone: with the Velletri Conference, three days of discussion between Iraqi and international activists to create a common action plan, the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative was born , still active today.

Syria is rapidly descending into a  civil war  that in 10 years has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee. A Bridge For is activated with a program of  reception and psycho-social support  dedicated to Syrian refugees in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.

Daesh  (Islamic State) occupies important areas of Iraq. Un Ponte Per, already active in those areas with programs of  social cohesion  and protection of  Iraqi minorities , is hit by this crisis to which it tries to respond with all its strength.

The first shipment of humanitarian aid destined for the population of North-East Syria crosses the border with Iraq and is ready to be delivered to the Kurdish Red Crescent. This is how  A Bridge for Rojava was born : an intervention destined to expand in response to the humanitarian and health emergency

The Tigris River and the Mesopotamian Marshes in Iraq are recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. A fundamental step in the path to protect Iraq's environmental and cultural heritage that Un Ponte Per has started together with the  Save the Tigris campaign .

After months of work, Un Ponte Per reconstructs and inaugurates the maternity and pediatric department of the Raqqa hospital , used by Daesh as a military base, thus returning to the city recently liberated from the militias, pre/post-natal care and services to which the population would not have had access.

The Turkish military operation  Peace Spring begins , in a few days the main border cities in North East Syria are hit causing civilian casualties and numerous injuries. Thanks to a great mobilization of solidarity, Un Ponte Per manages to face this latest emergency by supporting the local partners with whom it works.

The Covid-19 pandemic explodes   across the planet. Un Ponte Per, in addition to taking action to rethink its intervention to contain the pandemic and support the populations affected in the countries in which it operates, is committed to Italian and international networks to  denounce the causes  and  ask for the suspension of vaccine patents , so that they are accessible to the entire world population.

On February 24, Russia's aggression against Ukraine begins . Un Ponte Per immediately takes action to ask the Italian government and the European Union for urgent action for a position of active neutrality and for the convening of a peace summit.
At the same time, it launches Un Ponte Per l'Ukraina , a peacebuilding intervention to support the population, the civil and nonviolent resistance of young Ukrainians and the defense of the rights of conscientious objectors in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.