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For the last 20 years, I've been working in countries and cities ripped apart by conflict, violence, terrorism, or some insidious combination of all.
But I want you to take a closer look, and I think you'll see that the geography of violence is changing, because it's not so much our nation states that are gripped by conflict and crime as our cities: Aleppo, Bamako, Caracas, Erbil, Mosul, Tripoli, Salvador.
Steven Pinker and others have shown how the intensity and frequency of conflict is actually at an all-time low.
The rest, almost 500,000 people, are dying outside of conflict zones.
Recently, like in the ongoing war in Syria or the war in Gaza, we've seen images that are staged or brought from a different conflict.
They speak about different gender roles in conflict, not only in Maidan, and not only in Ukraine.
But there was another conflict, the one I believe that's more important here to make my point that it was a narrative conflict.
In 2009, I cofounded Mejdi Tours, a social enterprise that aims to connect people, with two Jewish friends, by the way, and what we'll do, the model we did, for example, in Jerusalem, we would have two tour guides, one Israeli and one Palestinian, guiding the trips together, telling history and narrative and archaeology and conflict from totally different perspectives.
Cristina Domenech: Thank you! (Applause) Guatemala is recovering from a 36-year armed conflict.
A conflict that was fought during the Cold War.
There's also societal challenges: poverty in the midst of plenty, inequalities, conflict, injustice.
I want to speak about a forgotten conflict.
It's a conflict that rarely hits the headlines.
The Congolese conflict is the deadliest conflict since World War II.
I want to tell you a story that emphasizes a core cause of the ongoing conflict.
So basically, every time we feel that we are on the brink of peace, the conflict explodes again.
So what I mean is that Western and African diplomats, United Nations peacekeepers, donors, the staff of most nongovernmental organizations that work with the resolution of conflict, they all share a specific way of seeing the world.
Throughout the world, and throughout conflict zones, this common culture shapes the intervener's understanding of the causes of violence as something that is primarily located in the national and international spheres.
And that happens not only in Congo but also in many other conflict zones.
Take the conflict between Congolese of Rwandan descent and the so-called indigenous communities of the Kivus.
This conflict started in the 1930s during Belgian colonization, when both communities competed over access to land and to local power.
And the answer is that international interveners deem the resolution of grassroots conflict an unimportant, unfamiliar, and illegitimate task.
And what's fascinating is that this analysis helps us to better understand many cases of lasting conflict and international intervention failures, in Africa and elsewhere.
And there are several other cases in which local, grassroots conflict resolution has made a crucial difference.
So international actors should expand their funding and support for local conflict resolution.
After two decades of conflict and the deaths of millions, it's clear that we need to change our approach.
Based on my field research, I believe that international and Congolese actors should pay more attention to the resolution of land conflict and the promotion of inter-community reconciliation.
The third monk identifies their conflict as a perceptual one – both arguing monks fail to see the larger picture.
They understand that innovation rarely happens unless you have both diversity and conflict.
This is the same for us when we help refugees, people displaced within their country by conflict, or stateless persons, I know many people, when they are confronted by overwhelming suffering, they feel powerless and they stop there.
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