Quotes About Peacebuilding

The north of peacebuilding is best articulated as finding our way toward becoming and being local and global human communities characterized by respect, dignity, fairness, cooperation, and the nonviolent resolution of conflict. To understand this north, to read such a compass, requires that we recognize and develop our moral imagination far more intentionally.

The peacebuilder then is a man or woman who is helping to figure the conditions of possibilities for the "presencing" of the reunion (unity, koinonia, shalom) in and between groups (communities, socialities).

Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.