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There are Peacebuilding Tasks for Everybody

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Over 25 years ago Galtung (1980: 396) informed us that there are “tasks for everybody” in the pursuit of peace and that includes both positive peace (overcoming structural violence) and negative peace (overcoming direct violence). Since that time, because of learning through practice and research, the truth of his assertion is ever more apparent. More and more people, in an increasing range of professions and disciplines, are participating in peace-related activities that flow across state borders.

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    This is a revised version of a discussion paper presented to the Conflict Resolution and Peace Building Commission (CRPBC) of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) at the latter’s bi-annual conference in Calgary, Canada, June-July 2006. It was first published as “There Are Peacebulding Tasks For Everybody”, International Studies Review, Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2007. Blackwell Publishing for International Studies Association (ISA). The permission to republish this text was granted on 8 October 2012 by Ms. Verity Butler of Wiley (UK).

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Alger, C.F. (2014). There are Peacebuilding Tasks for Everybody. In: Peace Research and Peacebuilding. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00503-4_7

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