Global Peace Builders : Peacebuilding Approaches

The Peacebuilding Approaches Catalogue is a full-colour glossy publication describing 18 approaches from the fields of conflict resolution, conflict transformation and peacebuilding around the world

The Catalogue is a learning resource for readers to discover and integrate fresh perspectives and an opportunity to showcase your approaches around the world

In late 2007, we made an open call to individuals and organisations involved in creating the conditions for sustainable peace in their communities to tell us of their approaches to peacebuilding. We wanted to create a publication that might offer peacebuilders working in areas of conflict across the world an opportunity to learn and inform their own work, building up their international networks along the way. We brought together a selection panel of experienced peacebuilders working in Northern Ireland to consider each of the submissions we received, and to select 18 for publication.

Click here to learn more about the selection panel, and the selection criteria used to assess the peacebuilding approaches received.

The catalogue is not an all-encompassing listing of the 'key' international peacebuilding approaches or an exhaustive evaluation of the 'best' of peacebuilding practice from across the world. It is a brief glimpse of the peacebuilding activity currently taking place, and offers an insight into just some of the many important approaches to peacebuilding currently being implemented locally and worldwide, at a
grassroots, community, national or international level.

We aim to highlight some of the challenges, difficulties and strategies that have gone into the design and delivery of peacebuilding practice across the world, with a particular look at peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. Above all, it is our hope that this catalogue would not only inform, but also offer a unique glimpse into some of the innovative strategies currently being employed for peace.

Each of the approaches to peacebuilding have been categorised by continent as well as cross-referenced
according to their area of focus within peacebuilding and which group of beneficiaries they target. At the
back of the catalogue you will find an at-a-glance index of these areas of focus and target groups, with
page numbers illustrating their corresponding peacebuilding approaches. It is our hope that this
selection will offer readers new opportunities, new insights and, above all, new perspectives on their own
approaches to peacebuilding.