How do local infrastructures for peace contribute to peacebuilding and statebuilding processes? What allows them to effectively ensure local ownership? Do they have any impact on the national level? How can they sustain their actions without external financial support? This documentary film accompanies the report that explores these questions.

This study reviews the most pressing challenges to peace in Liberia today and documents the ways in which individuals, families, communities, institutions as well as the government, are coping with, adapting to, or in some instances even transforming these challenges into creative and innovative opportunities.

This section presents a series of conversations with members of the national group on the contribution of a resilience approach and the perspectives for transformation that the group has identified over the past months.

This article looks at the project currently being piloted by Interpeace, on the role of resilience in the Guatemalan peacebuilding process.

This assessment of resilience draws attention to capacities and strengths in society, whether as individual personality traits, solidarity networks of communities or alternative livelihood strategies, which can inform more context-specific and nationally-owned peacebuilding processes.

This edition of the Journal of Peacebuilding focuses on resilience in peacebuilding contexts.