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Global Peace Builders International Summit The Journey from Conflict to Peace

Global Peace Builders International Summit The Journey from Conflict to Peace. Billy Hutchinson Sean Murray. Overview. 1. Why we are here? Personal Journey Community Journey 2. Challenges of Transition Delivering Peace at the Grassroots 3 . Interventions: Creating New Options

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Global Peace Builders International Summit The Journey from Conflict to Peace

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  1. Global Peace Builders International SummitThe Journey from Conflict to Peace Billy Hutchinson Sean Murray

  2. Overview • 1. Why we are here? • Personal Journey • Community Journey • 2. Challenges of Transition • Delivering Peace at the Grassroots • 3. Interventions: Creating New Options • Building Community Capacity • Building Strong Partners • Difficult Choices • 4. Transformation from Within • Convincing and Supporting Change

  3. Personal Journey • Personal Journey • Broadening Perspectives • Unilateral Conflict Transformation • Communication • Understanding Others • War to peace • Leadership in Transition • Engaging Others • Creating New Partners • Consolidating Peace Building

  4. Challenges of Transition • Script for conflict transformation • Hard Sell • Nature of Compromise • Implementation difficulties • Impact on grassroots: from the macro to micro

  5. Interventions • Creating and shaping processes to build up community • ‘Politics too important to be left to politicians’ • The World is a changed place: New realities • Develop, shape and legitimise processes that overcome division • Influence by doing: No place for spectators • Must go against grain • Economic justice? (redistribution?)

  6. The Future Together Initiative

  7. Demonstrating Positive Leadership

  8. Transformation From Within Cultivate Agents of Change from within Benefitted from/ created changes Change presents difficulties Must build allies: Grow new way of thinking and acting

  9. Concluding Remarks Journey with an uncertain future: Remains work in Progress Need strong partners to build peace to sustain peace building Need to create New Partners Must confront negative voices

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