The Little Book of Strategic Peacebuilding: A Vision And Framework For Peace With Justice

by Lisa Schirch

So we'd all like a more peaceful world—no wars, no poverty, no more racism, no community disputes, no office tensions, no marital skirmishes. Lisa Schirch sets forth paths to such realities. In fact, she points a way to more than the absence of conflict.

She foresees just peace—a sustainable state of affairs because it is a peace which insists on justice. Chapters

Schirch singles out four critical actions that must be undertaken if peace is to take root at any level): ) waging conflict nonviolently, reducing direct violence, transforming relationships; and building capacity. From Schirch's 15 years of experience as a peacebuilding consultant in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

“This Little Book is an attempt to bring together the various fields and activities related to peacebuilding to integrate them into one conceptual framework. At the core of this framework is the idea of strategic peacebuilding, an interdisciplinary, coordinated approach to building a sustainable justpeace —a peace with justice. Strategic peacebuilding requires clear goals. While the concept of justpeace is growing in popularity, few writings lay out the vision and practice of justpeace. One aim of this book is to promote the concept of justpeace as an overall goal or vision for peacebuilding.

A title in The Little Books of Justice and Peacebuilding Series.

89 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2005

Reviews

[Victoria Richard]

This might need to be required reading. There's a lot to dig into - most of what she recommends is written towards healing community tensions, but honestly could be used as conflict resolution on an individual level.

[Laura Faludi]

I don´t think I like the Little Books...

[MARTINE]

I really appreciate the series of books this is tied to (Little Book of Conflict Transformation, Little Book of Restorative Justice) because while it seems simple on the surface, it builds a framework for further study. There is great scholarship and countless books on things covered in this book but Schrich does a great job at making you appreciate what puzzle pieces create the larger whole of "justpeace" world work.

I really recommend this to anyone to map out where they would like to go deeper.

[Monica Brasov-curca]

This book is an education in all things peacebuilding - well written and concise and worth your time.

[Preston]

A good primer for neophytes in the field of Peacebuilding. However, there were some passages that felt like mere equivocation; and it was, at times, rather redundant.

[Sunny Graham]

Easy to read and very concise. A primer on peacebuilding.