United States Institute of Peace | Virtual Event

Description: Our world urgently needs locally-led approaches to advance peace and development. Today’s international aid system is stretched thin, as needs reach record highs. Assistance often continues to hinder local leadership, failing to build on the local resources within communities that form the bedrock of effective social change. Although research consistently shows that peacebuilding is more successful when done by the people most impacted, many operational challenges stand in the way of implementing a new development approach. Sierra Leone’s community reconciliation program, Fambul Tok, offers a unique model for building peace ‘from the inside out’ and can help us to reimagine the top-down approaches that have too often failed to end violent conflicts.

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