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A matrix linking conflict resolutionary and transformative approaches to training.

A set of tools to integrate strategic and responsive components of evaluation for peacebuilding initiatives.

A doodle from The Moral Imagination expressing the escalation and deescalation of conflict through a single line in time.

A version of the pyramid of peacebuilding focusing on the idea of vertical and horizontal integration.

A series of doodles illustrating the trail of strategies taken up by orb weaver spiders in weaving their web.

A doodle version of the integrated framework for peacebuilding, originally proposed in the book Building Peace, and subsequently expanded in The Moral Imagination.

A diagram from The Moral Imagination that offers a way to explore a more holistic understanding of settings of cycles of violent conflict.

A doodle that connects the nested spheres of the first iteration of the integrated framework for peacebuilding with the nested spheres of the past that lies before us.

A short essay emergent from the wisdom of Hafiz's poem 'Dropping Keys.'