Interpeace and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform are organising a lunch-time event on the Convening Power of Resilience for Peace.

In recent years, much attention has appropriately been given to fragility and its associated risks in conflict-affected societies, including the risks this presents for developmental programs or humanitarian action. But less attention has been given to the role of resilience in both dealing with the legacies of past violence and anticipating the potential of (re)emerging conflict.

Can we build peace more effectively by focusing on strengthening communities’ or society’s existing sources of resilience, rather than by exclusively seeking to address the fault-lines which facilitate violent conflict? This is the central question that Interpeace has been exploring through its Frameworks for Assessing Resilience Programme (FAR), piloted in Liberia, Guatemala and Timor-Leste, and supported by Sida.

Please click here for more information and to register your participation.

Sandwiches will be provided before the meeting starts from 12:00 – 12:30 pm.