Collaborative Design in Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Central African Republic
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Collaborative Design in Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Central African Republic
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Andrew Blum is the executive director of the Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice at the University of San Diego. Ruben Grangaard is a program officer on the Learning, Evaluation, and Research team at the United States Institute of Peace.
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About the Author
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (Kroc IPJ) launched in 2001 with a vision of active peacebuilding. In 2007, the Kroc IPJ became part of the newly established Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, a global hub for peacebuilding and social innovation. The core of the Kroc IPJ mission is to co-create learning with peacemakers — learning that is deeply grounded in the lived experience of peacemakers around the world, that is made rigorous by our place within a university ecosystem and that is immediately and practically applied by peacemakers to end cycles of violence.