Peacebuilders have a difficult task. They must work with diverse groups and individuals with vastly different narratives, or cognitive frameworks, about pressing issues like who belongs, how important an issue is, or what’s driving conflict. PartnersGlobal guides peacebuilders through the process of engaging with narratives, including looking at their own narrative frameworks, to avoid further polarization and isolating potential allies. Our approach underscores that the ultimate goal is not to change others’ narratives but instead to engage with them and create shared meaning together.
Horizons project (2020-2021)
United States of America
The Horizons Project, a collaboration between PartnersGlobal Institute and Humanity United, is strengthening dialogue and collaboration between the social justice, peacebuilding, human rights, and democracy communities in the US.
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Reframing Peace Project (2019-2021)
The Reframing Peace project seeks to uncover a uniting “core story of peace” of peace and peacebuilding through rigorous social science research that will allow for the many disparate media, brands, NGOs and social justice activists to align around an effective narrative framework for peace.
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Engaging Narratives for Peace and Security (2017)
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, a group of sixty experts from various sectors, representing U.S. government, non-profits, academia and industry convened in May 2017 to reflect on the importance and power of narratives. As a part of our Narratives for Peace initiative, PartnersGlobal and the Alliance for Peacebuilding are pleased to continue to convene this group and to make available the important content generated by our collective expertise.
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Narratives for Peace: How we think and communicate around peacebuilding
PartnersGlobal and the Alliance for Peacebuilding Host "Narratives for Peace" Event in New York
How to invest in narrative competency and combat toxic polarisation
A call for investment in narrative competency in divided times
Engaging Narratives for Peace: A conversation with Julia Roig
Check out additional resources and content connected to our Engaging Narratives for Peace work.
Resources
Engaging Narratives for Peace Guide
The Narratives for Peace Guide is a call for the peacebuilding community to conscientiously analyze our own narratives a...
Rewriting the Narrative of Peace
In March 2018, PartnersGlobal and the Alliance for Peacebuilding convened a group of peacebuilders, cre...
Signature Approaches
Narratives for Peace
Narratives are cognitive frameworks, often unconscious, that we filter new information and stories through. What comes out on the other side are the worldviews and shortcuts we use to understand what’s happening around us.