Richard Matthew - Community Led Approaches to Natural Resources and Peacebuilding

"After 20 years of peacebuilding experimentation, one of the good signs is that the countries receiving this [peacebuilding] attention...more and more are shaping the process," said Professor Richard Matthew, director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs at the University of California, Irvine.

Peacebuilding is shifting, he said, from internationals going in with pre-existing conceptions of "what you need for stability and development, what will make you attractive to investors, what will make your people secure," to instead sitting down and talking with stakeholders about "what types of capacity do you need, and how can we support you in acquiring those."

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