This list was compiled by Taylor O'Connor who maintains a blog titled "Everyday Peacebuilding."

Defined here as a process through which drivers of conflict afflicting a particular geographical area are addressed through a range of activities involving mediation, negotiation and/or facilitated dialogue, local peace processes have increasingly been turned to as an approach to resolving conflict over the last decade. This shift is due in part to the failures of national peace processes to bring about lasting peace as well as to the changing nature of global conflicts, which have become more complex and multilayered. One country that has seen local peace processes and agreements emerge as a vital tool for efforts to bring stability and peace is Iraq: 20 such processes have occurred across the country since 2014.

Yet despite the increased use of local peace processes in both the global and Iraqi context, lessons learned from global practices as well as those from the Iraqi experience are still emerging. This toolkit is an attempt to respond to this, in the hopes of furthering global best practices through a better understanding of the Iraqi experience.2 More specifically, the purpose of this toolkit is twofold: to highlight best practices and lessons learned from the global practice of local peace processes; and to extract lessons learned and best practices from the Iraqi experience of designing, implementing and monitoring local peace processes and agreements. In doing so, the ultimate aim is to provide donors, practitioners and overall supporters of local peace processes in Iraq and elsewhere with a resource that can be used to design and implement more effective peace processes.

The toolkit is divided into three chapters. Chapter One covers the best practices and lessons learned from the global experience with local peace processes. It begins with an outline of the factors that have made local peace processes a key peacebuilding approach before proceeding to highlight some best practices and key lessons learned emerging from the literature to date. Chapter Two provides an overview of the Iraqi experience with local peace processes. It includes a listing of the key local peace processes in Iraq, a description of their main characteristics, lessons learned, an assessment of their comparative effectiveness and links to global best practices.
Chapter Three provides guidelines and recommendations for those wanting to design, implement and support local peace processes in Iraq.

From: https://reliefweb.int/report/iraq/local-peace-processes-toolkit

Author: Emma Leslie, Shadia Marhaban, Meredith Preston McGhie, Ameya Kilara, Julia Roig, Christine Ahn, and Neha Sanghrajka
Published by: CPCS
Publication date: February 2022

What is mediation in the 21st century? What does it mean to be a peace leader in this time? How could organizations adapt to shocks like pandemics and ever-shifting dynamics? And why should we let go of the “big man” approach to solving conflicts?

We asked seven world-renowned peace leaders at the forefront of 21st-century mediation and peacebuilding to share their experiences and lessons learned to help answer these traditional approaches and inspire those who read it and work for peace everywhere. The writings in this book are excerpted from the 9th Asia Peace Practitioners Research Conference, hosted by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in November 2020. These powerful words and engaging discussions reflect a significant shift in how mediation and peacebuilding are seen.

Videos of each chapter are available.

This Review from the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support (CCTA) was recommended by MPI facilitator Joan McGregor. The introduction to this issue of CCTS Review states:

This is an unusual issue of the Review, being a record of an informal workshop, rather than a seminar. There was no paper circulated in advance and there were several, informal opening presentations. The first, by Diana Francis, was given on paper, since her voice was nearly gone. All others were delivered orally. In order to retain their immediacy, we have used direct rather than indirect speech in reporting them. However, they are not literal transcriptions of the talks.

In this article, you will find Diana Francis' presentation on Two World Views: Peacebuilding and Pacification. Those who have taken Joan's course would be familiar with this diagram.

The CCTS review is available from Conciliation Resources. You can find additional CCTS Reviews here.

2020 marked the 20^th anniversary of the International Institute of Peace and Development Studies – IIPDS. Since its formation in 2000, IIPDS serves as a meeting point of diverse minds, ideologies, professions, gender orientations, languages, religions, and cultures from various countries and continents. In close coordination with ARF, the Institute has built the capacity and empowered thousands of youth, women, children, and young adults and has hosted dozens of workshops, consultations, roundtables, and conferences where senior and junior scholars had the opportunity to exchange ideas and dreams.

In celebration of its 20^th anniversary, IIPDS has worked on a publication where senior and junior scholars have contributed to produce more than forty articles around the theme of conflict transformation from the perspectives of peace activists, scholars, and peacebuilders.

Published: January 1, 2021
Editors: Ana-Lina Thoueille, Dr. Clarence J. Dias, Mohammad Abdus Sabur, Nur-E-Jannat Amee, Zineb Naini

Race, Power & Peacebuilding aims to explore and to understand how racism manifests itself in the peacebuilding sector.

This report is a summary of a global consultation that included over 160 people from 70 countries.

By analysing current peacebuilding approaches through a ‘decolonising’ lens, we hope to encourage the peacebuilding sector to embrace the decolonising agenda and address unequal global-local power dynamics.

This report builds upon the findings of Time to Decolonise Aid which found systemic racism across the wider humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors.

This report has been produced by Peace Direct in collaboration with the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC), International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY).

From Peace Direct

From the Executive Summary:

• Since the UN Agenda for Peace, thinking and practice in peacemaking, peacebuilding and transitional justice have aimed to support inclusive mechanisms in order to deliver more sustainable peace settlements.
• Peace agreements represent the beginning—not the end—of a reform and reconciliation process that must be inclusive and participatory throughout its duration.
• Ensuring meaningful inclusivity during the design, implementation, and monitoring phases of peace agreements will reinforce moral legitimacy, representative scope, and resilience, ultimately improving the quality of peace.
• Fostering public buy-in of a peace agreement requires addressing the entrenched motivations and diverse grievances of a range of stakeholders, including those of local communities directly affected by violence and armed groups.
• Sustainable verification, monitoring, and evaluation processes must be built into peace agreements.
• Case studies from Colombia, the Central African Republic, Guatemala, and Northern Ireland provide evidence of what matters to peacebuilding processes, implementation, and policy.