One of the main reason positive peace is judged as better strategy for moving the prevention agenda forward is its universal applicability and the fact that it is not confined to conflict-ridden countries. More importantly, it calls on the responsibility of all the world’s citizens to act as its proactive agents.
Tag: peacebuilding
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According to Saba Ismail, co-founder and Executive Director of Aware Girls—a youth-led organization working for women’s empowerment and gender equality in Pakistan—young women are in turn the group most excluded from peacebuilding.
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The UN’s new resolution on youth, peace, and security is not without its flaws in terms of guiding future policy. A potential major issue is that it sets the age range of youth as 18-24 years of age.
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Head of the UN High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO), José Ramos-Horta, discusses the challenges of peace operations reform.
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Local government can play a vital role in supporting the development of social cohesion, the capacity for collective action that enables societies to mediate conflict before it turns violent.
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Developing solid institutions of governance and capacities to promote development requires timelines expressed not in years, but in decades.
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International NGOs still struggle to achieve ‘local ownership’ in peacebuilding, but a new approach is working on putting local people in the lead.
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In her new book Peaceland, Séverine Autesserre argues that the failings of peacebuilding are caused by the habits and everyday practices of foreign interveners.
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While often overlooked, Kabbah played a central role in keeping his countrymen committed to peace and avoiding the pitfalls of other African countries emerging from conflict.
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The withdrawal of the UN mission is an important indicator that peacebuilding is now more in the hands of Sierra Leone nationals, and there is a lot of work still to be done.
