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peacebuilding
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alt=|thumb|267x267px|Human peace sign - symbolically represents a holistic approach to peacebuilding. 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 can include various methods such as violence prevention; conflict management, resolution, or transformation; and post-conflict reconciliation, restora
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- has goal
- conflict resolution
- theorized by
- Johan Galtung
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Encyclopedic overview
32 sectionsContents
- Definition
- History
- Approaches to peace
- Negative peace: direct violence
- Positive peace: structural violence
- Justpeace: cultural violence
- Approaches to peacebuilding
- Institutionalization
- Components
- Theory
- Preservation of cultural heritage
- Major organizations
- International organizations
- Governmental organizations
- France
- Germany
- Japan
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Research and academic institutes
- Role of women
- Examples in early 21st century
- Results
- Criticisms
- Implementation
- Perpetuation of cultural hegemony
- See also
- Notes
- References and further reading
- External links
alt=|thumb|267x267px|Human peace sign - symbolically represents a holistic approach to peacebuilding. 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 can include various methods such as violence prevention; conflict management, resolution, or transformation; and post-conflict reconciliation, restorative justice or trauma healing before, during, and after any given case of violence.
As such, peacebuilding is a multidisciplinary cross-sector technique or method that becomes strategic when it works over the long run and at all levels of society to establish and sustain relationships among people locally and globally and thus engenders sustainable peace. Strategic peacebuilding activities address the root or potential causes of violence, create a societal expectation for peaceful conflict resolution, and stabilize society politically and socioeconomically.
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