1. Merwyn De Mello, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) International Service Worker - Peacebuilder, Afghanistan

2. Afghan Peace Volunteers (APV) Borderfree Nonviolence Community Centre (Centre) Kabul, Afghanistan

3. APVs say “#Enough! War, Inequality and Global Warming!”

4. APV Teachers and Students Afternoon Classes - Street Children School at the Centre

5. APV with Workers lining up for their duvets Winter Duvet Project 2015

6. Just Peace: Peacebuilding as a strategy
In a conflict context, social, political and economic systems are constantly changing
Protracted conflict and post-conflict rebuilding begs for creative peacebuilding responses
Locus’ of the peacebuilder on the Peacebuilding Pyramid matters
A web-linking strategy provides the momentum for peacebuilders linked with each other to push boundaries, to being change agents

7. Diagram 1: Actors and Peacebuilding Foci John Paul Lederach

8. Afghan Women in a Village Community Draw Image and Values of a Peacebuilder

9. Diagram 2 The Web Strategy - Level 2 of the Pyramid diagram created by the Universitat of Innsbruck

10. Afghan Men in a Village Community Discuss Strategies for Peacebuilding in their Council

11. Peacebuilding Strategy
Peacebuilding efforts can happen when there is:
Willingness to work within the faith and cultural norms to build relationships of respect, trust and inclusion;
Investment in research, and understanding historical factors that contribute to intergenerational conflict;
Willingness to work in the midst of crisis while not being subsumed by its energy;

12. Peacebuilding Strategy contd.
Peacebuilding efforts can happen when there is:
Commitment to being rooted in nitty-gritty day-to-day realities, while motivated by a long-term vision of peace-writ large;
Curbing of the ‘otherness’ or ‘enemy’ mentality but readiness to understand and be changed by the other;
Foundational principles of peace and nonviolence in Islam grounds for partnership in peacebuilding and the path to reconciliation.

13. Diagram 3: The Web of Reconciliation John Paul Lederach from Transforming Violence: Linking Local and Global Peacebuilding, ed. Robert Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr

14. Integrating Peacebuilding Curriculum Into Hospital Technical Training Program in Kabul

15. Diagram 4: Peacebuilding in Traumatized Societies Barry Hart