COVID-19 has hastened our use of technology and moved our lives almost wholly online. We have become more reliant on technology in everyday life. For peacebuilders, their experiences have been similar. In 2020, Shift Power for Peace, a collaboration between Peace Direct, Humanity United and Conducive Space for Peace launched the Digital Inclusion Fund to … Continued
Escaping “Perpetual Beginnings”: Challenges and Opportunities for Local Atrocity Prevention in the Democratic Republic of Congo. . Government efforts to curb violence in DRC are lacking, which means local people carry out many atrocity prevention activities themselves. Despite the vital role these efforts play, significant gaps remain, including under-resourcing and poor networking opportunities. . This report is … Continued
The role of civil society in building sustainable peace is no longer debatable. ‘Reflecting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace’, presents a summary of a global online consultation with civil society that took place in June 2020. Over 280 participants from 97 countries joined the virtual conversation to share their perspectives on peacebuilding and contribute their … Continued
What Transformation Takes: Evidence of Responsible INGO Transitions to Locally Led Development Around the World takes readers on a journey to examine responsible transitions from international non-governmental organizations to locally led entities. The book is a compilation of the 19 case studies from the three-year program, Stopping As Success: Transitioning to locally led development (SAS), led … Continued
This brief on partnership approaches is part of a series called ‘Towards locally-led peacebuilding’ intended to highlight gaps in current policy and practice. While global conflicts increase, the international peacebuilding community is increasingly recognising that locally-led activity is a key element to successful peacebuilding. Drawing on 15 years’ experience partnering with grassroots organisations, this brief … Continued
A go-to, practical resource for peacebuilders, people working in conflict situations or people studying conflict transformation within a variety of disciplines. Working with Conflict 2 reflects the accumulated wisdom of over 3,000 peacebuilding practitioners from 70 countries over the 20 years since the first Working with Conflict book was published. This book is now available … Continued
Photo by Thor Morales/+Peace Violent conflict is on the rise in the United States. Black Americans and people of color continue to bear the brunt of this violence and injustice. Peace Direct, The Bail Project, Activate Labs, +Peace, and The Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation invited local activists, changemakers, organizers, healers, and peacebuilders to a … Continued
As peacebuilders place increasing importance on the use of digital technologies to sustain peacebuilding work in this midst of the Covid‑19 pandemic, we convened an online consultation for people across the globe to share insights and knowledge on how to capitalise on the opportunities for peace that digital technologies provide. The latest in our series … Continued
Working with inspiring individuals and communities at the centre of peacebuilding efforts from Somalia to the Philippines, in 2019 we supported almost 28,000 people to turn away from violence and build peace from the ground up. Local peacebuilders are making peace a practical reality for thousands of people across the globe, and we are committed … Continued
The U.S. government passed the Global Fragility Act in 2019, directing U.S. agencies to create a Global Fragility Strategy to assist conflict-affected countries. The law mandates that the U.S. government create this strategy in consultation with local civil society and national and local governments, among other partners. Peace Direct and the Alliance for Peacebuilding recently … Continued