However, because peacebuilding focuses on relationships in complex contexts, the field of peacebuilding has, by necessity, made efforts towards finding practical ways to reflect upon both the intended and unintended effects of this work.
The third annual meeting of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding takes place on 19 April and will be co-hosted by the US, Denmark and Timor-Leste.
Dina supervises three national staff, one administrative and two program officers one of whom is working on political participation and peacebuilding; the other on a joint humanitarian project with UNDP, to track gender-based violence and provide psychosocial services.
Eight years on, Gulalai Ismail, now a poised 24-year-old, is running two programmes of work – one on gender empowerment and the other on peacebuilding – from her home in Peshawar, where she grew up.
Governments are simply not addressing the root causes of violence: the world spends 250 times more on the military than on peacebuilding".
The good news is that emerging peacebuilding approaches focusing on conflict resolution are proving to be highly practical and effective, saving both lives and money.
Progress depends on both.
