Join this week’s M&E Thursday Talk on Thursday, February 4th, at 16:00am CET. Simon Fisher, Author and Peacebuilder at Peace Direct, will lead our webinar discussion on “Why do we need another Working With Conflict?”
Since the original Working With Conflict book was published in 2000, the peacebuilding and development fields have changed significantly. That is why Peace Direct recently decided to update and rework the pivotal Working With Conflict to address these changes. Led by one of the authors, Simon Fisher, our discussion will reflect on the book’s key themes, giving insight to the wisdom of over 3,000 peacebuilding practitioners from 70 countries.
Simon will talk through several of the new topics covered in the 2021 edition, such as utilizing different learning methods, recognizing what unlearning might be needed, pinpointing where the sources of power currently lie and how they can be transformed for peace, and exploring why healing is a vital component of peacebuilding. I hope you join our discussion on the book’s insights and how peacebuilding has changed. While looking towards the future, let’s learn from the past.