Milt Lauenstein
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  • Peacebuilding
  • Other Interests
    • Political Views
    • Art Bio & Images
    • Doggerel
    • Philosophy
  • Background
  • Contact


MILT'S PEACE PROMOTION ACTIVITIES


Updated June 21, 2018

Promote Locally-led Peacebuilding

  • Fund the Purdue Peace Project (PPP) actions abroad. (Two books on locally-led peacebuilding are being written.)
  • Explore the use of PPP’s foreign experience to address group violence in the US.
  • Explore the possibility of developing national grassroots peace movements in countries in which PPP has multiple projects.
  • Help fund a paper on the subject by several locally-led peacebuilding practitioner organizations (under way).
  • Participate in working groups on the subject at AfP and PSFG.
 
 
Promote research on cost effectiveness to provide evidence on which to base resource allocation
  • Initiate and fund research on cost-effectiveness. (Work already initiated at FDG, Kroc School at the University of San Diego, and School for International Training, and by graduate students at Stanford, Hawaii, and Cornell). 
  • Stimulate interest in research on cost-effectiveness elsewhere.
 
Contribute to peacebuilding overall
  • Report on recent conversations with leading peacebuilders about improving peacebuilding effectiveness.
  • Initiate and fund studies relating to peacebuilding activities and disseminate the results (being done by a PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia).
 
  • Wars
  • Wars ended, 1992-2017
    • Continuing wars
  • Peacebuilding activities
    • By NGOs
    • By governmental and intergovernmental agencies
  • Funders
    • By governments and government sponsored organizations
    • Private
  • Organizations engaged in research on war and peacebuilding
  • Fund a prize for best paper presenting ideas for effective new peacebuilding initiatives.
  • Help organize a small meeting to identify opportunities for transformational improvement in results achieved by workers for peace, including raising much more financial support.
  • Write articles on peacebuilding.
  • Issue progress reports as appropriate.
  • Maintain website.