The power of artificial intelligence (AI) is palpable from Bangladesh to Brussels, and from Syria to Syracuse. In this issue of Peace Policy, authors offer glimpses of how AI is already reshaping the conditions for peace and conflict. AI is altering how people relate...
Author: Lisa Schirch
Articles
Seven Peacebuilding Reflections on Violent Extremism
What have peacebuilding experts learned from twenty years of counterterrorism? Here are seven reflections. 1. Violent extremism results from fear and frustration paired with the fantasy of a “pure” society. Since 2001, Muslims have spoken out about the stigma they...
Civil-Military Interaction in Peacebuilding
Lisa Schirch and David Cortright In recent decades, international peacekeeping missions have become more robust and multi-dimensional, involving diverse civilian and military actors. In many cases, civilian peacebuilding and development actors are on the ground...
Sorting Out Dilemmas in a New Era of Civil-Military Relations
Lisa Schirch and David Cortright In conflict zones around the world, military troops and civilian peacebuilders are interacting and sharing space in unprecedented ways. In Thailand, civil society groups worked with the military to write national security policy for...





