How do we make peacebuilding a first-order issue? We know peacebuilding is the answer to conflict—so why do we, as a field, have such a hard time making that case to funders, policymakers, and the public?In this episode of AfP’s Got Conflict? Let’s Talk Peacebuilding! podcast, AfP’s Executive Director, Liz Hume, sits down with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, to answer these questions and discuss his new book, From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entreprene...
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How do we make peacebuilding a first-order issue? We know peacebuilding is the answer to conflict—so why do we, as a field, have such a hard time making that case to funders, policymakers, and the public?In this episode of AfP’s Got Conflict? Let’s Talk Peacebuilding! podcast, AfP’s Executive Director, Liz Hume, sits down with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, to answer these questions and discuss his new book, From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entreprene...
How do we make peacebuilding a first-order issue? We know peacebuilding is the answer to conflict—so why do we, as a field, have such a hard time making that case to funders, policymakers, and the public?In this episode of AfP’s Got Conflict? Let’s Talk Peacebuilding! podcast, AfP’s Executive Director, Liz Hume, sits down with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, to answer these questions and discuss his new book, From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entreprene...
AfP was proud to partner with the Porticus Foundation to implement the program “Enabling Effective Dialogue: Developing Understanding and Effectiveness Measures." The goal of the initiative was to gather and assess the evidence about the effectiveness of interreligious dialogue (IRD) as a peacebuilding approach, and contribute to a strong culture of monitoring, evaluation, and learning across the IRD sector. A key part of this activity was establishing a peer learning community of global sout...
In 2022, AfP celebrated its 20th anniversary, and today, it is a thriving and robust network of over 200 organizations and more than 30,000 global peacebuilders in 181 countries working to end violent conflict and build sustainable peace. But how did it all start? Over two decades ago, a small group of visionary peacebuilders established the Alliance for Peacebuilding, officially incorporating it in 2002. These founding leaders knew we needed to work together if we wanted to build and ad...
The January 6th attack on the United States Capitol forced Americans to confront what conflict and peacebuilding experts have warned for years: that even before the 2016 elections, dangerous conflict dynamics are increasing in the U.S., resulting in greater instability and violence. The data shows that identity-based conflicts—fear of us versus them— are driving this win-lose conflict. But why now in the U.S. are political instability and violence becoming such serious threats to our dem...
Just last month, the United Nations observed the 22nd anniversary of the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, setting the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda. In recent years, the world has seen both tremendous achievements and setbacks in relation to the status of women and LGBTQ+ individuals—from Iran to Afghanistan to Myanmar. In this episode of AfP's Peace: We Build It! podcast, join host Tanya Domi and guests Dr. Valerie Hudson, University Distinguished Professor and George H.W...
How can we talk about peacebuilding to best position it as the tool of first resort? How can we reframe peace to make it feel possible? In this episode of AfP’s Peace: We Build It! podcast, join host Tanya Domi and guests Liz Hume, AfP’s Executive Director, and Amanda Ripley, award-winning investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author, for a conversation exploring how the media, peacebuilding field, and public can inject hope, agency, and dignity into conversations around con...
Rape is the most common form of torture in armed conflicts—from Bosnia, to Kosovo, to Iraq, and now Ukraine—yet it remains rarely prosecuted by international courts. What can the peacebuilding and international communities do to end this silence? And how can they both hold perpetrators accountable and prevent these atrocities in the future? In this special episode of AfP’s Peace: We Build It! podcast hosted by AfP’s Executive Director Liz Hume, we answer these essential questions. AfP is...
Growing cyberthreats to peace and security are coming to light—from attacks on election and critical to infrastructure, to healthcare, to the financial sector. In light of this, how is the peacebuilding field working to build cyber resilience, and what is it learning from its efforts? In this episode, join host Tanya Domi, AfP Executive Director Liz Hume, and guests Digital Peace Now Global Ambassadors Raj Burli and Gurmehar Kaur for a conversation around what exactly cyber resilience me...
Since January 6th, 2021, Americans have been grappling with the shocking rise of white supremacy and white nationalism that drove a mob to the U.S. Capitol with the aim to stop the Electoral College vote count by Congress. Although the insurrectionists failed to stop the vote, the events of January 6th have instigated a broader conversation and questioning about who we are. America is reckoning with the fact that it is not exceptional. Indeed, these extreme elements have always been in our so...
Fighting in Ethiopia began in early November 2020, when forces of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) attacked a federal army base in the region, leading Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to order a military offensive against the rebels, leaving thousands of dead. UN human rights reporting indicates that serious violations occurred on all sides, which may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes. While more than seven million people need humanitarian aid in northern Ethiopia toda...
In the 1990s, a breakthrough agreement negotiated between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Oslo, Norway, set out a process for a mutually negotiated two-state solution to be gradually implemented by the end of the decade. Although the process showed initial promise and progress, a combination of dissatisfaction and distrust led to the breakdown and delay of the process. After frustration and provocation led to the outbreak of violence in 2000, the process proved difficult to restart before ...
In the seventh episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Peace: We Build It! podcast series, join host Tanya Domi and Mercy Corps guests Mayesha Alam, Senior Advisor of Research and Strategy, and Ryan Sheely, Director of Research - Governance and Conflict. This episode explores Mercy Corps' recent report, A Clash of Contagions: The Impact of COVID-19 on Conflict in Nigeria, Colombia, and Afghanistan and provides policy recommendations for a comprehensive U.S. COVID-19 strategy. ...
In the sixth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Peace: We Build It! podcast series, join host Tanya Domi and guest Velma Saric—Founder and President of the Post-Conflict Research Center and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Balkan Diskurs—to learn about the Srebrenica Genocide. Last year on July 11th, we marked the 25th anniversary of the genocide. This episode explores the history, current updates, and how to build peace in the genocide's aftermath. Be sure to also check out Bosnia Is ...
In this fifth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Allan-Charles Chipman, FaithRooted Organizer & Transformation Strategist for Initiatives of Change USA, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss Juneteenth, structural racism in the United States, and actions we can take today. Support the show
In this fourth episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Megan Corrado, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy; Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini, Founder & Executive Director of ICAN; and Wahzma Frogh, Co-founder and Director of the Women & Peace Studies Organization sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the announced military withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, and implications on the peace process and gains made by Afg...
In this third episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, genocide scholars Gregory Stanton, Founding President and Chairman of Genocide Watch, and Maxim A. Pensky, Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP), sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the crime of genocide, exploring past genocides from Armenia to Darfur, as well as ongoing genocides against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang and the Tigrayans ...
In this second episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, AfP’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Megan Corrado, and Dr. Shirley Graham, Director of the Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs and Associate Professor with George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, sits down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss the progress of and challenges facing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Agenda 20 years after passage ...
In this first episode of the Alliance for Peacebuilding’s (AfP) new podcast, Peace: We Build It!, Acting CEO and President of AfP, Liz Hume, will sit down with our host Tanya Domi to discuss what is driving increasing global violent conflict and fragile states including at home in the United States, the challenges to reducing and preventing it, and how people, organizations, governments and corporations all over the world are building sustainable peace. The Alliance for Peacebuilding (Af...
How do we make peacebuilding a first-order issue? We know peacebuilding is the answer to conflict—so why do we, as a field, have such a hard time making that case to funders, policymakers, and the public?In this episode of AfP’s Got Conflict? Let’s Talk Peacebuilding! podcast, AfP’s Executive Director, Liz Hume, sits down with John Marks, founder of Search for Common Ground, to answer these questions and discuss his new book, From Vision to Action: Remaking the World Through Social Entreprene...
