John Paul Lederach is an American Professor of International Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame,Notre Dame,Indiana,and concurrently Distinguished Scholar at Eastern Mennonite University. He has written widely on conflict resolution and mediation. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado. In 1994 he became the founding director for the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University where he was a professor. He currently works for the foundation Humanity United.
Kumar Rupesinghe was a Sri Lankan academic and activist involved in social issues,particularly human rights,development issues,processes of globalisation,conflict prevention/resolution,and conflict transformation in the light of peacekeeping and peacebuilding for a harmonious coexistence among all peoples in the world.
Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict. It revolves around developing constructive personal,group,and political relationships across ethnic,religious,class,national,and racial boundaries. The process includes violence prevention;conflict management,resolution,or transformation;and post-conflict reconciliation or trauma healing before,during,and after any given case of violence.
Dekha Ibrahim Abdi was a Kenyan peace activist based in Mombasa,Kenya. She worked as a consultant to government and civil society organisations. She was of Somali ethnicity.
David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is a Vietnam veteran who is currently Professor Emeritus and special adviser for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame,and the author,co-author,editor or co-editor of 22 books. Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war.
swisspeace is a practice and research institute located in Basel,Switzerland. It is dedicated to the promotion of effective peacebuilding. Partnerships with local and international actors form the basis of its work. Together with its partner organizations,swisspeace combines expertise and creativity to reduce violence and promote peace in conflict-affected contexts.
Kristian Berg Harpviken is a Norwegian sociologist and researcher,and since 2009 director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Harpviken is foremost known for his competence on Afghanistan,where he has travelled extensively and conducted multiple field works since he first engaged with the country in 1989.
Alma Abdul-Hadi Jadallah,is a social scientist,internationally recognized mediator,facilitator and trainer,as well as a scholar-practitioner and educator with close to twenty years of experience in the field of conflict analysis and resolution,research and applied practice,peacebuilding,conflict prevention,and transformation. Since 2005,she has been the President and Managing Director of Kommon Denominator Inc.,a private consulting firm.
Chandra Lekha Sriram (1971–2018) was Professor of Law at the University of London,School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has written and lectured widely on conflict prevention,post-conflict peacebuilding,human rights,international criminal law,and transitional justice. Her most recent monograph,Peace as governance:Power-sharing,armed groups,and contemporary peace negotiations (2008),offered a comparative critical examination of the use of power-sharing incentives in peace processes in Colombia,Sri Lanka,and Sudan. Previous monographs on transitional justice and international criminal accountability,Confronting past human rights violations:Justice versus peace in times of transition (2004) and Globalizing Justice for mass atrocities:A revolution in accountability (2005);examined transitional justice and internationalized and externalized criminal justice processes in or for Sierra Leone,Timor-Leste,El Salvador,Honduras,Sri Lanka,South Africa,and Argentina.
Promoting recovery from conflict is not limited to simply a humanitarian,security or development issue and often involves a combination of all three. Stabilization of fragile states is an approach and a process regarding the fragility and security of said states. Hence,stabilization is an essential concept in relation to fragile and failed states,where basic institutions and services are lacking and where conflict is an influential factor. OECD uses the term from fragility to resilient to describe the process of stabilization.
Luc E.H.G. Reychler is a Belgian social and political scientist.
Religion and peacebuilding is the study of religion's role in the development of peace.
Mario Calixto is a Colombian human rights activist.
Raffaele Marchetti is an Italian political scientist and editorialist.
Global Peace System is a concept of global conflict resolution dependent on nonviolent processes to eradicate war. It relies upon a multi-strand approach to conflict resolution,incorporating broad social and political solutions. In contemporary peace and conflict studies,the concept of a global peace system has been evolving since the 1940s around the theory that there is a global infrastructure of peacebuilding and that there is a need for systems thinking in peacebuilding. The term "global peace system" was coined from the work of Robert Johansen,who explored the concept in 1978's Toward a Dependable Place.
Peace psychology is a subfield of psychology and peace research that deals with the psychological aspects of peace,conflict,violence,and war. Peace psychology can be characterized by four interconnected pillars:(1) research,(2) education,(3) practice,and (4) advocacy. The first pillar,research,is documented most extensively in this article.
Mats R. Berdal is Professor of Security and Development at the Department of War Studies,King's College London.
Hizkias Assefa (1948) is a conflict mediator known widely in Africa for his non-aligned work as a consultant who has mediated in most major conflict situations in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 20 years,as well as in a dozen countries elsewhere. He is also a professor of conflict studies. Of Ethiopian origin,he is based in Nairobi,Kenya. He was one of the founding faculty members in 1994 of the Conflict Transformation Program at Eastern Mennonite University.
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is a leading Regional Peacebuilding organisation founded in 1998 in response to civil wars that plagued West Africa in the 1990s. Over the years,WANEP has succeeded in establishing strong national networks in every Member State of ECOWAS with over 550 member organisations across West Africa. WANEP places special focus on collaborative approaches to conflict prevention,and peacebuilding,working with diverse actors from civil society,governments,intergovernmental bodies,women groups and other partners in a bid to establish a platform for dialogue,experience sharing and learning,thereby complementing efforts at ensuring sustainable peace and development in West Africa and beyond.
Florian Krampe is a German/Swedish political scientist and international relations scholar at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).[2] He is best known for his work on climate-related security risks,Environmental Peacebuilding,and the governance of natural resources after armed conflict. He also serves as Affiliated Researcher at the Research School for International Water Cooperation at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. Between 2020 and 2022 Krampe was cross appointed Specially Appointed Professor at the Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability at Hiroshima University,Japan.
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