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Estamos emocionados de presentarles nuestro primer episodio de Co-Inspira, el programa de Construcción de Paz en Colombia de Adapt Peacebuilding. En esta ocasión, les traemos una conversación inspiradora con Leslie Wingender, cuya carrera se ha enfocado en la construcción de la paz en distintos lugares del mundo, desde la República Centroafricana hasta Guatemala, Iraq, Líbano y Colombia. Leslie ha liderado programas de construcción de paz y manejo de conflictos en diversos contextos, diseñando, implementando, haciendo seguimiento y evaluando su impacto.
En nuestro episodio, Leslie nos compartió sus inspiraciones y desafíos personales en la construcción de paz, así como su visión personal y profunda sobre cómo esta puede transformar la vida de las personas y las comunidades. En la actualidad, Leslie es Directora de Construcción de Paz en Humanity United, liderando el enfoque de seguimiento y evaluación del equipo de Construcción de la Paz y apoyando el aprendizaje entre equipos. Únase a nosotros para escuchar a Leslie compartir su experiencia y pasión por la paz, y descubra cómo cada uno de nosotros puede contribuir a construir una sociedad más justa, incluyente y pacífica.
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In our first episode of Co-Inspira, the Peacebuilding Program in Colombia by Adapt Peacebuilding, we are pleased to introduce you to Leslie Wingender. With a career dedicated to peacebuilding in places such as the Central African Republic, Guatemala, Iraq, Lebanon, and Colombia, Leslie has led the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of peacebuilding and conflict management programs in diverse contexts. In our conversation, Leslie shared her personal inspirations and challenges in peacebuilding, as well as her intimate vision of how peacebuilding can transform the lives of individuals and communities.
Leslie is currently the Director of Peacebuilding at Humanity United, leading the monitoring and evaluation approach of the Peacebuilding team and supporting learning among teams. Join us to hear Leslie share her experience and passion for peace, and discover how each of us can contribute to building a more just, inclusive, and peaceful society.

This conversation explores the roles of popular social movements in relationship to national transitions from conflict to peace. Peace processes and other types of national political transitions are often criticised for not being sufficiently inclusive of the concerns of the public, or particular marginalised groups and issues. How can protest movements, civil disobedience campaigns, issue-based coalitions, and other forms of social movement support the negotiation and implementation of peace and transition processes that are more sustainable, and reflective of public concerns.
 
The conversation explores Veronique's background in non-violent movements, the limitations and power assymetries of top down peace and transition processes, types of social movements and how they can respond to these, varying elite and subaltern conceptions of peace, how social movements can evolve through steps of conflict transformation beginning with awakening, transfer strategies and other design challenges for the inclusion of social movements, the ethics of violence and non-violence for achieving peace, and more. We draw upon examples in Guatemala, Colombia, Myanmar, Israel and Palestine, Ukraine, and elsewhere. 
 
To dig deeper on these topics, we recommend reading Veronique's papers:
- on a twin framework for civil resistance and conflict transformation with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict in "Powering to Peace". 
- on the roles and strategies of social movements in national peace processes in "From the Street to the PeaceTable" with the United States Institute of Peace.
- providing statistical evidence that more inclusive political processes lead to stabler democratic transitions in "Nonviolent Action and Transitions to Democracy," also with USIP
- a practical action "SNAP guide" with strategies for nonviolent movements to advance peacebuilding (with USIP, by Nadine Bloch and Lisa Schirch)
 
 

Decades of experience building peace in societies affected by violent conflict shows that these efforts are more effective and sustainable when they are led by local people. Despite this experience, the global system of peacebuilding organisations and institutions that fund and administer peacebuilding programs still largely reflects the interests of international outsiders. In this episode, we talk with Mie Roesdahl of the Conducive Space for Peace and how to achieve transformation of the global peacebuilding system so that it better prioritises the leadership of local people and reflects the contexts in which they seek change. Further detail is available in the System in Flux report.
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“Peace in the age of chaos” is the new book from the founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace and the Global Peace Index, Steve Killelea. In this podcast we explore a range of compelling themes emerging from Steve’s book, including the contribution that systems thinking and positive peace can make towards better peacebuilding strategies and why peace is a prerequisite for tackling other complex challenges of our times, such as climate change and building back from the pandemic. Steve populates the conversation with rich evidence drawn from the work of his organisations, as well as personal anecdotes that paint the picture of a life fully lived and committed to the pursuit of a more peaceful world.
Please follow these links for more information on the Global Peace Index, for access to the Peace in the Age of Chaos book, for free training courses available at the Positive Peace Academy, and more from the Institute for Economics and Peace. 
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Myanmar is in crisis. Six years on from the election of Myanmar's first civilian government in more than half a decade, the military has initiated a bold power grab.
Hundreds have been detained, but the military may have underestimated how strongly their people would have reacted to having their rights trampled. Amidst a popular uprising that may well become the largest in the country's history, and with the military now with their back to the wall, there's much concern that popular protests will be met with a violent crackdown.
This podcast episode was recorded before the military coup, and speaks to the topic of people power for change in Myanmar. The conversation is with Professor Danny Burns, from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and Stephen Gray, Co-Founder and Director of Adapt, and reflects on methods for popular participation in the country's peace process.



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The global pandemic brought on by the novel coronavirus has fundamentally transformed peacebuilding efforts, development initiatives and humanitarian response. This podcast episode, featuring Stephen Gray, Co-Founder and Director of Adapt, and Francis Zau Tu, Adapt's Programme Manager in Myanmar, discusses COVID-19’s implications for peacebuilding writ large and looks at Adapt’s work in Myanmar to understand how the pandemic has affected conflict dynamics and impacted peacebuilding. We explore new opportunities to advance peace and highlight some of the enabling factors that can allow organisations to build a culture of adaptation and learning in order to better serve communities in dynamic contexts.
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