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Peacebuilding

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Human Peace Sign - Symbolically Represents an Holistic Approach to Peacebuilding. Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural & 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. This process includes violence prevention; conflict management, resolution, or transformation; and post-conflict reconciliation or trauma healing, i.e., before, during, and after any given case of violence. [1] As such, peacebuilding is a multidisciplinary , cross-sector technique or method which 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—thus engendering sustainable peace. [1] Strategic peacebuilding activities address the root causes or potential caus...