Peacebuilding Reboot
Huffington Post
Peacebuilders have evolved from a nexus of professionals from abroad to increasingly local facilitators, citizen peacebuilders, technologists, and NGOs, but work remains rooted in complex human dynamics. In preventing violence, realizing the bounty of democratized information and capital flows will require cross-discipline expertise, combining the knowledge of social scientists with data scientists, the knowledge of conflict experts with technologists and engineers. We will need institutions and processes that prize radical collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurship to empower this modern facet of growth.