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From Local to National Peacebuilding .
“Imagine an externally brokered peace agreement as being like the stones in a wall. The work of local, insider peacebuilding constitutes the cement that holds those stones in place. Without cement, the wall will fall down
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— Sara Pantuliano, Overseas development Institute, London
Many professionals working in conflict areas recognise that peacebuilding and statebuilding ultimately depend on the efforts of local people and institutions. Yet local peacebuilding is often equated with community-level projects that are too small for governments to handle and that can only have a limited impact.
Peace Direct believes that locally led peacebuilding can operate on a large scale. Its concept paper, Ripples into Waves, uses four external case studies to show how local peacebuilding initiatives have succeeded on a national scale and made a real impact on violent conflict.
Click here to download Ripples into Waves (pdf)
