September, 2014
Fighting the Spread of Ebola in a Weak and Poor Governance Structure: A Liberian Peacebuilder’s Perspective
(Photo Credit: Morgana Wingard, USAID via Flickr) As the Ebola virus spreads throughout Liberia, the effects of bad governance, weak health infrastructure, mismanagement, and greed are manifest as death rates […]
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Dear Reader, As we finalize this issue of Building Peace, it feels as though the world is in greater need than ever of approaches to heal stark political divides, remedy […]
The Future of Peace: No Finishing Line
In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in 1987, Oscar Arias Sánchez, president of Costa Rica, remarked, “Peace has no finishing line, no final destination. It is like climbing a […]
Putting Local Peacebuilders First
Think global, act local is a bumper sticker the peacebuilding field would do well to take to heart. By supporting locally-led approaches to peacebuilding in specific conflict situations and as […]
Technology and the Moral Imagination in Local Peacebuilding
The peacebuilding practitioner, John Paul Lederach, neatly summarizes in “The Moral Imagination” how we can use technology to increase the impact of peacebuilding initiatives: “Reach out to those you fear. […]
Peacebuilding with Local Citizens
When we went through the . . . containment site after the revolution, we were demobilized . . . for five days. How can a man who went through a […]
Communication and Engagement in Peacebuilding
In the locality of Kebkabiya, North Darfur, some 150 kilometers west of Sudan’s capital city of El Fasher, the Sudanese Development Initiative (SUDIA) is using low-tech solutions to build peace […]
Crime in the Global Economy: Profit, Survival, and Rule
Last year, authorities seized 1,300 kilograms of cocaine in Paris from an Air France fl originating from Caracas. In 2009, drug smugglers unloaded 10,000 kilograms of cocaine in Gao, Mali […]
Crime and Conflict: The New Challenge for Peacebuilding
Organized crime, long considered a law and order problem, is now becoming part of development policy and other agendas. This shift reflects growing recognition that armed violence and associated fragility […]
Conflict Minerals, Ethical Supply Chains, and Peace
Diamonds and gold have an intensely emotional as well as monetary and industrial value. They symbolize love, romance, friendship, and far, far more. Human rights and environmental campaigners were onto […]
