Ethnography for Peacebuilding: How anthropology might help peacebuilders return to the heart of our practice
Melissa Wild Having spent my career in cross-cultural and cross-sectoral spaces, building and facilitating peace programs - be it intergroup dialogue, youth engagement or educational programs -, and having worked as a community mediator for the last five years as well, I have witnessed the enormous amount of creativity and innovation both required to build peace programs as well as to resolve and transform conflicts. Sometimes, such creativity and innovation can get lost when brought to scale...