{"id":6574,"date":"2018-02-08T13:28:41","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T18:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/?page_id=6574"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:36:47","slug":"peacebuilding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/educate\/peacebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-sg67lq-763c6e7889a4af8b3034f1bfac24e4b3\">\n.avia-section.av-sg67lq-763c6e7889a4af8b3034f1bfac24e4b3{\nbackground-color:#0493c8;\nbackground-image:unset;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-sg67lq-763c6e7889a4af8b3034f1bfac24e4b3 main_color avia-section-small avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-custom av-height-custom  container_wrap fullsize'   data-av_minimum_height_px='105'><div class='container 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https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TPA-flower-logo-with-white-no-background-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/TPA-flower-logo-with-white-no-background.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 80px) 100vw, 80px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-6574'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-nu7mq6-43e875ca21797cbcb9f8ee10769b11ee '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Peacebuilding<\/h1>\n<p>Peacebuilding is a broad field that covers a wide spectrum of approaches beyond what we focus on in the five cornerstones.<\/p>\n<p>Our focus is primarily on those tools that directly improve the basic ways we relate and communicate with one another \u2014 enhancing greater cooperation. We advocate for policies, legislation and systems needed to move the work of peacebuilding forward. We welcome the work of all peace advocates and diverse peacebuilding organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Our hope is to align our intentions and collective peacebuilding actions for a brighter future.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<div class=\"intense panel \">\t<div class=\"intense panel-heading heading_collapse_0\" style=\"background-color: #DFEEF1;color: #444 !important;\">\t<i class=\"intense icon icon-0x collapse-icon hide\"><svg><use xlink:href=\"#font-awesome-minus\" class=\"\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><i class=\"intense icon icon-0x expand-icon \"><svg><use xlink:href=\"#font-awesome-plus\" class=\"\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i>\t<a class=\"intense panel-title accordion-toggle\" data-parent=\"#accordion-0\" href=\"#collapse_0_domestic-peacebuilding\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #444 !important;\">\t<strong>Domestic Peacebuilding<\/strong>\t<\/a>\t<\/div>\t<div id=\"collapse_0_domestic-peacebuilding\" class=\"intense panel-collapse collapse 0\" style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #a3a3a3;background-color: #ffffff;color: #444 !important;\";\">\t\t<div class=\"intense panel-body\">\t\t<\/p>\n<p>There are many areas of work domestically that aim to reduce violence and help create the conditions for peace. These encompasses many types of work, that go by many different names. We are choosing to define this work under the term \u201cpeacebuilding\u201d as the umbrella term for all the other approaches to address conflict, violence and peace.<\/p>\n<p>There are many exciting fields of work, from gang violence prevention and intervention, Conflict Resolution Education in schools, Restorative Justice, Bullying Cessation Campaigns, peer mediation and many others works geared toward social change at all levels of society and in all stages of conflict; these tools have grown dramatically over the past 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from Lisa Schirch (of\u00a03P Security)\u00a0Strategic Peacebuilding \u2013 State of the Field Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 1, No. 1: Spring 2008:<\/p>\n<p>The reality is that peacebuilding happens outside the halls of power \u2013 in the fields, where men and women \u2013 citizens of a the country work tirelessly to earn a living; in schools where our children go to learn and get an education; in courtrooms and parliamentary chambers, where problems once solved with weapons are submitted to tedious democratic resolution. All in an effort to deal with a broad array of issues spanning the spectrum, from school shootings, to urban gang violence, to child and elderly abuse, to the growing levels of incarceration-all problems which demand serious community solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Currently in the US both the Government and Non Government\/private sector players are undertaking peacebuilding efforts that seek to prevent, reduce, transform, and help people recover from violence in all forms, even structural violence that has not yet led to massive unrest. Regardless of the avenue taken by the interveners, these efforts can be classified into four major categories namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Advocating for Change<\/strong>\u00a0where advocates and activists seek to gain support for change by increasing a group\u2019s power to address issues, and ripen the conditions needed to transform relationships.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reducing Direct Violence<\/strong>\u00a0where the intervention seeks to reduce direct violence by restraining perpetrators of violence, relieving the immediate suffering of victims of violence and violent acts, and creating a safe space for peacebuilding activities in other categories that address the root causes of the violence in the communities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Transforming Relationships<\/strong>\u00a0where the intervention is aimed at transforming destructive relationships with an array of processes that address trauma, transform conflict and restore a sense of justice. These processes give people opportunities to create long-term, sustainable solutions to address their needs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capacity Building actions<\/strong>\u00a0where longer-term peacebuilding efforts enhance existing capacities to meet needs and rights and prevent violence. These activities aim to build just structures that support a sustainable culture of peace in the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these solutions are already working at a smaller scale within cities and states throughout the country. Current successful programs offer practical ways of improving community\/police relations, rehabilitating prisoners, reducing recidivism rates, preventing domestic violence, providing cultural competency education, teaching nonviolent conflict resolution, and preventing school violence.<\/p>\n<p>However, much more needs to be done to significantly increase our ability to ensure that proven programs such as these are adequately funded and universally available. Additionally we need to provide the institutional heft to increase and expand the breadth of their impact, offering practical, concrete, and effective solutions to our most pressing problems.<\/p>\n<p>The field of domestic peacebuilding is a great American asset, deserving of far greater investigation and exploitation especially focusing on the domestic front.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/div>\t<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"intense panel \">\t<div class=\"intense panel-heading heading_collapse_1\" style=\"background-color: #DFEEF1;color: #444 !important;\">\t<i class=\"intense icon icon-0x collapse-icon hide\"><svg><use xlink:href=\"#font-awesome-minus\" class=\"\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i><i class=\"intense icon icon-0x expand-icon \"><svg><use xlink:href=\"#font-awesome-plus\" class=\"\"><\/use><\/svg><\/i>\t<a class=\"intense panel-title accordion-toggle\" data-parent=\"#accordion-0\" href=\"#collapse_1_international-peacebuilding\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #444 !important;\">\t<strong>International Peacebuilding<\/strong>\t<\/a>\t<\/div>\t<div id=\"collapse_1_international-peacebuilding\" class=\"intense panel-collapse collapse 0\" style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #a3a3a3;background-color: #ffffff;color: #444 !important;\";\">\t\t<div class=\"intense panel-body\">\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The work of International Peacebuilding addresses issues of disharmony, violence, crime and war by identifying their underlying causes and implementing nonviolent solutions that promote sustainable peace.<\/p>\n<p>Much of international peacebuilding consists of conflict prevention techniques that prevent violence from escalating into war. The Peace Alliance works to help create the political and social will to invest in this work, advocating improved government infrastructure and direct funding of effective programs.<\/p>\n<p>War-torn societies, characterized by high rates of displacement, damaged infrastructure, and weak or absent institutions are also more vulnerable to disease and may under some conditions provide fertile ground for other international ills like arms trafficking, transnational crime, and terrorist networks.\u00a0 With such cases having risen sharply in the recent past, the work of International Peacebuilding is more important now than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Alliance is a member of the\u00a0Prevention and Protection Working Group, a coalition of human rights, religious, humanitarian, anti-genocide, peace and other organizations dedicated to improving U.S. government policies and civilian capacities to prevent violent conflict including mass atrocities, and protect civilians threatened by such crises.\u00a0 The PPWG identifies several issues as among the most pressing in addressing war-torn regions \u2013 key of which is the discussion of economic and strategic policy instruments that could have a powerful effect in combating state fragility and reversion to war, such as terms of trade, monetary policy, management of currency fluctuation, among other aspects. Additionally PPWG focuses on ensuring that relevant government actors are dedicated to the effectiveness of stabilization and peacebuilding operations through enhancing civilian capability as well as interoperability among international actors.<\/p>\n<p>Over recent years, the architecture and mechanisms for international peacebuilding have improved considerably. There is a much greater understanding of the complexities of peacebuilding, more self-critique about the limits of international aid\/assistance, and increasing appreciation of the unique demands of specific situations, particularly over questions of state-society relations and governance. Read more from Charles Call and Elizabeth Cousens in:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thepeacealliance.org\/cms\/assets\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Ending-Wars-Building-Peace.pdf\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ending Wars and Building Peace: International Responses to War-Torn Societies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are three key internationally focused peacebuilding agencies in the U.S. government that we work to keep funded and to keep their focus on leading-edge peacebuilding practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>United States Institute of Peace (USIP)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States Institute of Peace was created by Congress as a nonpartisan, independent organization in 1984. Its main mandate has been prevention and mitigation of international conflict in a nonviolent manner. If the prevention and mitigation is successful, it saves the United States government the money (and lives) that would have been spent in intensive and expensive armed conflict. In the past year, budget cuts have hurt many peace supporting institutions, including the USIP which saw a 6% reduction in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Programs at the USIP apply across the world in conflict resolution, mediation, post-conflict peace, and violence prevention. The institute is crucial for moving United States foreign policy toward a culture of peace, rather than a culture of aggression. The USIP\u2019s previous budget was $42 million, merely the equivalent of sending approximately 39 soldiers to Afghanistan. The USIP has had an established office in Kabul since 2008 and has continued to establish programs throughout the country. Another program to specifically highlight, in contrast to United States war efforts, is the USIP program in Iraq, based in its office in Baghdad which was established in 2004. There, dialogue has been fostered amongst groups previously in conflict and USIP has supported new NGOs in the region.<\/p>\n<p>International programs cannot be supported without a stable budget. Programs that are created to help maintain peace after a conflict situation, which are a main component of the USIP, are rarely financially supported independently, but yet are a crucial part of the prevention of future hostility, and therefore future costs. The USIP budget goes toward a wide variety of peace building missions, grants, and fellowships.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of Key Projects and Functions of USIP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peace-building educational initiatives in Afghanistan<\/li>\n<li>Research and policy analysis in Iran<\/li>\n<li>Promotion of dialogue, security, and stability in Iraq<\/li>\n<li>Issue engagement in the Sudan and South Sudan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), a part of the State Department, was created in 2011 to improve the US Government\u2019s ability to predict and prevent conflicts. At any given time, CSO works intensely with 3 or 4 countries, engaging women, youth, and other local leaders to try and gather information about what interventions would truly make a difference in building peace. Right now, CSO\u2019s priorities are Kenya, Syria, Honduras, and Burma, with smaller engagements in Central Africa, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, CSO worked to prevent a return of the post election violence that killed 1,300 people and displaced 350,000 5 years ago. With the work of CSO and others, the level of violence after the 2013 election was dramatically reduced, with only 20 people killed. With Syria, CSO is working to unify the and strengthen the moderate opposition groups, building local governments and creating the skills and resilience needed for the eventual transition of power. CSO is working with police and civil society in Honduras, with one of the world\u2019s highest homicide rates, to reduce corruption throughout the Government Security apparatus and restore public trust. And efforts in Burma are helping to build bridges between the government and ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>In deciding where and how they use their resources, CSO draws on a variety of diverse sources, including diplomatic intelligence and media reports, \u201cbig data\u201d platforms, polling, local interviews, and international expertise. A major goal as well is to try and bring all the various US and other outside actors in a region, including ambassadors, USAID, the Defense Department, and NGOs in closer communication with each other and with the local leaders in the countries where they operate. With its focus on proactively breaking cycles of violence, CSO is an increasingly valuable and appreciated tool for the US Government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Complex Crises Fund (CCF)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Complex Crises Fund (CCF) provides unprogrammed money for the State Department and USAID to \u2018prevent and respond to unforeseen crises. In just a few short years, it has become one of the most highly demanded tools in the US foreign policy toolkit, allowing the State Department and USAID to make rapid investments in prevention, stabilization, and crisis response. In 2014, funds from the CCF have been used for conflict mitigation between refugees and hosts in Jordan, and community peacebuilding in the Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The CCF provides for prevention support, post-conflict support, or in countries\/regions at high risk of conflict or escalation of conflict, with a goal of targeting the root causes of conflict. The CCF can also be used to support immediate responses by the CSO, in the past up to $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>The CCF was created in 2010 and has since provided critical support for programs in Kenya, Kyrgystan, Sri Lanka, Cote D\u2019Ivoire, Tunisia, and Yemen. CCF provided a quick use of funds for civilian response programs that also involved the host government\u2019s participation. Since the Arab Spring, there has been a new focus on providing support for fledgling democracies at risk of conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s world, highly responsive humanitarian and diplomatic assistance is often required to prevent and end conflict, and the CCF is an important tool to provide civilian and humanitarian response to potential atrocities, preventing the need for later military involvement. The lack of funding and availability of immediate funds for civilian response groups has often led to their ineffectiveness, creating a cycle of apathy towards their funding. This leads to an increase of funding and use of immediate military response, rather than investment in the less costly option of conflict prevention. The CCF is pioneering a new and much more responsive model of funding that has increased the effectiveness of US aid and diplomacy in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2002, CMM works within USAID\u2019s Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance. Their \u201cPeople-to-People Reconciliation Fund\u201d brings together individuals of different ethnic, religious or political backgrounds from areas of civil conflict and war \u2013 creating opportunities for adversaries to resolve conflicts, reconcile differences, promote greater understanding and mutual trust, and work on common goals toward reducing conflict. CMM has supported over 135 peacebuilding projects in 35 countries and awarded over $115 million in grants for \u201cpeople-to-people\u201d reconciliation programs.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in Israel and Palestine, CMM has been heavily involved with efforts to build bilingual schools, civil society organizations, peace oriented think tanks, and other institutions where Israelis and Palestinians live and work together, with the hope that building trust and stability between the two peoples will create current and future leaders who will be able to create a long term peace.<\/p>\n<p>CMM also plays a heavy role in developing analytical frameworks that help other government agencies learn how to understand and work in conflict environments. They have trained over 500 U.S. Government and non-government partners in tools that ensure a peacebuilding approach in conflict-affected areas. 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