Peacemaking and Peacebuilding

This article considers the full range of strategies and methodologies available to contemporary intellectuals and peace activists for contributing to the gradual and complex process of ensuring a peaceful planet and a sustainable global civilization for future generations. Interpreting peacemaking and peace building in their full significance, a route map is traced through the bewildering array of approaches to peacemaking indicating something of the way in which their interconnections can lead to an overall strengthening of the work needed for effective peace building. Just as human temperaments and capacities differ from individual to individual and from culture to culture yet all are needed for the full richness of global human society to flourish, so too, all the separate fragments of the overall mosaic of peace are needed to complete the long-term work that each one of us, in our divergent ways, is called on to contribute to the urgent need for peacemaking on our troubled planet.