Actors and Approaches to Peacebuilding

This diagram was first developed with a pen in hand and a napkin over tea and coffee. I was sitting with a researcher who was asking about experiences I had just had in Nicaragua of moving between people that were on two sides of a war. She asked me, “How do you explain what peacebuilding is in this kind of a setting?” I drew this picture on a napkin where we were sitting having lunch of this triangle because I was trying to describe something, not prescribe something.