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  1. Jun 7, 2021 · A greater degree of peace leadership from politicians, corporations, clergy, and community activists who help establish a vision and set a course toward peace. Peace leadership occurred, for instance, when the Iroquois peace prophet unified five warring tribes and replaced the weapons of war with dialogue and consensus-seeking. Other bastions ...

  2. Dec 24, 2023 · Peace is a fundamental concept that holds immense relevance in our world today. It is the absence of violence, the state of harmony, and the foundation for societal progress. In a world plagued by…

  3. Positive Peace is a useful overarching measure of progress in society. Academic Unmana Sarangi believes that “positive peace” tends to grow in an environment of “negative peace.”. In other words, states in conflict and war, or oppressive states, tend to see negative economic growth, while the absence of violence corresponds highly to ...

    • Because The Effects of Conflict Are Far Reaching
    • Because Military Answers Alone to Political Problems Don’T Work
    • Because Conflict Shatters Lives and Stunts Development

    The majority of those risking their lives trying to reach Europe are from Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia and other areas beset by violent conflict, insecurity or political repression. While we can and should respond generously to their immediate plight, a strategic peacebuilding response looks at what can be done ‘at source’. It takes concerted effort...

    At the heart of many violent conflicts lie issues of inequality, injustice and exclusion. While criminality can feed on and into a conflict, there are often genuine and unaddressed grievances at play, which are expressed in violence. Military power may be deployed to prevent or defend against an immediate threat, but it cannot resolve underlying po...

    More than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by violent conflict. 59.5 million are currently forcibly displaced worldwide, 19.5 million of them refugees, of which half are children. No low-income conflict-affected country has achieved a single one of the UN Millennium Development Goals which expire this autumn. Peacebuilding approaches, ...

  4. Sep 9, 2014 · 9 September 2014. Underscoring that peace is more than just the absence of war, United Nations officials today stressed the need for concerted efforts to achieve the common vision of a life of dignity and well-being for all. “We know that peace cannot be decreed solely through treaties – it must be nurtured through the dignity, rights and ...

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  6. Dec 2, 2021 · The Sustaining Peace Project, in contrast, includes metrics for both positive and negative peace, is enhanced by local community expertise, and is conceptually coherent and based on empirical ...

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