People work. Not paper work.
PEACE DIRECT WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
Peace Direct wants to change the balance of power and resources between local people and outsiders so that local peacebuilding is central to all strategies for managing conflict.
We believe local individuals and organisations have knowledge and social capital which outsiders can’t access, and which are essential to achieving lasting peace. We believe if local initiatives were adequately funded, prospects for peace would increase and peacebuilding could be done more cost effectively.
So Peace Direct needs to work with others to:
- Fund local peacebuilding
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of local peacebuilding
- Make it easy for people to find out what local peacebuilding initiatives exist
- Increase our knowledge about how ‘outsiders’ can work effectively with ‘local initiatives’
- Get the public on board
- Build coalitions of local peacebuilders in conflict areas which can have greater strategic impact
Peacebuilder Henri Bura Ladyi with former militia men in DRC.
