Making Peace Last

The international community invests billions annually in thousands of projects designed to overcome poverty, stop violence, spread human rights, fight terrorism and combat global warming. The hope is that these separate projects will 'add up' to lasting societal change in places like Afghanistan. In reality, these initiatives are not adding up to sustainable peace. Making Peace Last offers ways of improving the productivity of peacebuilding. This book defines the theory, analysis and practice needed to create peacebuilding approaches that are as dynamic and adaptive as the societies they are trying to affect. The book is based on a combination of field experience and research into peacebuilding and conflict resolution. This book can also be used as a textbook in courses on peace-building, security and development. Making Peace Last is a comprehensive approach to finding sustainable solutions to the world's most pressing social problems. I: Unlocking The Power Of Peacebuilding; 1: We Need to Do Better, and We Can; 2: A Shift of Mind Systemic Peacebuilding; 3: Can the SAT Model Really Make a Difference?; 4: The SAT Model Means (Radical?) Change; II: Systemic Peacebuilding Assessment and Planning; 5: Systemic Assessment; 6: Systems Mapping Putting It All Together; 7: Moving from Analysis to Action; III: Catalyzing Systemic Change; 8: Helping Systems Change Themselves; 9: Transactional Peacebuilding A Toolbox; 10: Do Any of Us Have the Power to Change a System?