Peacebuilding, Conflict and Community Development - (Rethinking Community Development) by John Eversley & Sinéad Gormally & Avila Kilmurray

About the Book

This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North and Global South, on communities alleviating conflict and enabling transformation in divided societies.

Book Synopsis

How do local communities effectively build peace and reconciliation before, during and after open violence? This trailblazing book gives practical examples, from the Global North, the former Soviet bloc and Global South, on communities addressing conflict in divided and contested societies.

The book draws on a range of critical perspectives and practitioner analyses. The diverse case studies demonstrate the considerable knowledge, skills, commitment, courage and relationships within local communities that a critical community development approach can support and encourage.

Concluding with activists' perspectives on working with the challenges of violence, the book offers insights for both an understanding of the root causes of conflict and for bottom-up peacebuilding.

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About the Author

John Eversley is Managing Director of two social enterprises: Policy, Practice, Research and Education and Macroscopia.

Sinead Gormally is Senior Lecturer in Community Development and Adult Education at the University of Glasgow.

Avila Kilmurray is Migration and Peacebuilding Executive at The Social Change Initiative.