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Proactive Peace Profile: Farming for Social Change

6th July 2023 / Ashley Galbreath / 1 Comment

Over the course of my PhD, I’ve had the privilege of being able to speak to a wide number of different people around the world about their peace work. One of the groups I’ve focused on is the Farming for Social Change network. They’re a network of smaller programmes in the American Friends Service Committee. … Continue reading Proactive Peace Profile: Farming for Social Change

Proactive Peace Profile: AfriNov, Turning The Tide

25th October 20223rd August 2023 / Ashley Galbreath / 4 Comments

Part of what I am hoping to do with my PhD. research, is to be able to describe what Proactive Peace currently looks like in different parts of the world. Too often it seems that peace work isn’t given much attention until violence has already started. And as important as that kind of peace work … Continue reading Proactive Peace Profile: AfriNov, Turning The Tide

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19th August 20229th February 2023 / Ashley Galbreath / Leave a comment

Newsroom, August 2022 I wrote this article in August 2022 for NewRoom. Follow the link below and have a look: In an age of ‘megacrises’, prevention may be the only option we have left The World Health Organisation says we are in the midst of a humanitarian 'megacrisis'. We need to prioritise prevention and learn … Continue reading Other writing

This is Why Prevention is Important

16th March 2022 / Ashley Galbreath / Leave a comment

Why does it so often seem to be the case, that we don’t take peace seriously until war has started? There is much that could be said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Indeed, it seems difficult to pin-point a focus area for a short blog post such as this. But to my mind, this … Continue reading This is Why Prevention is Important

In Focus: Inequality of Economic Access

22nd February 2022 / Ashley Galbreath / 1 Comment

In this blog, I talk a lot about conflict risk-factors, so I thought it would be worth-while exploring each of them in a bit more depth. Last post, I looked at inequality of political access. This week, I thought I'd focus on Inequality of Economic Access. The name might sound a little clunky, but I … Continue reading In Focus: Inequality of Economic Access

In Focus: Inequality of Political Access

13th January 2022 / Ashley Galbreath / 1 Comment

I talk about conflict risk-factors quite a lot, because addressing them is the basis of Proactive Peace Work. So I thought it was about time that I explored these risk-factor types in more depth. In my research, I refer to 5 key types of risk-factor. Over the next few weeks, I'll discuss all of them, … Continue reading In Focus: Inequality of Political Access

What About Climate Change?

3rd December 20216th December 2021 / Ashley Galbreath / Leave a comment

When high profile ‘climate events’ occur– be it Cop26, a particularly strong cyclone, or an especially harsh drought– we start to hear questions about how the changing, and increasingly unpredictable climate will affect our future. And when this happens, it is not uncommon to start to hear questions like: ‘will climate change make war more … Continue reading What About Climate Change?

Funding Peace

8th November 20217th January 2022 / Ashley Galbreath / Leave a comment

I’ve recently joined a local trust board. Their remit is to distribute funds to organisations and individuals engaged in peace work. Anyone joining this board is faced with the unavoidable question of what it means to fund peace work in the 21st century. There are two main sorts of work that we immediately think of … Continue reading Funding Peace

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7th October 20219th February 2023 / Ashley Galbreath / Leave a comment

Alternative Security Review, October 2021 I wrote this article in October 2021 for the Alternative Security Review. Follow the link below and have a look: Invisible Solutions: embracing uncertainty to prevent violence Despite a consensus that preventing violence is better and cheaper than trying to cure or contain it, almost all governments persist in vastly … Continue reading Other writing

Why Prediction Isn’t Enough

30th September 202130th September 2021 / Ashley Galbreath / Leave a comment

‘If only we had known!’ It is a common enough phrase, ruing the ‘too little too late’ response to some sort of humanitarian crisis. We shake our heads at how often we hear it. But aside from the disheartened frustration the phrase engenders, it also reflects a common assumption in the world of international relations; … Continue reading Why Prediction Isn’t Enough

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