Doodle Six

This doodle connects the nested spheres of the first iteration of the integrated framework for peacebuilding with the nested spheres of the past that lies before us. The merging of these frameworks enables an exploration of the challenges posed by a range of activities that are increasingly practiced in the field of peacebuilding. This doodle suggests that we can locate these activities by connecting our spheres of memory to the levels of conflict.

In the bottom quadrant of the doodle, we locate initiatives of restorative justice. The center block requires an exploration of how chosen traumas involving whole communities and ethnic and religious identities emerge and are sustained. At the far edges of the integrated framework as it explores the past, we find memory captured in the more expanded notion of narrative, long history. Peacebuilding requires respect for the center and the edges of time and space, where the deep past and the horizon of our future are sewn together, creating a circle of time.