Peacebuilding Practice

Five Operating Principles

Peacebuilding Practice: Five Operating Principles
"All things are linked and mutually affect one another."

The peacebuilding conceptual framework is built on five operative principles that underpin its basic philosophy and provide a guideline for assessing specific initiatives. The five operating principles are: comprehensive, interdependence, infrastructure, strategic, and sustainable. This document defines and describes these five principles from the perspectives of theory and practice.

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