INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN AN AGE OF GLOCAL CONFLICTS
Keywords:
Glocal Conflicts, Sustainable Peace, Innovative Approaches, Hybrid Peace Building, Digital Diplomacy, Inclusive GovernanceAbstract
The unending, multi-faceted inter-connectedness and complexity of glocal conflicts demand an urgent paradigm shift in some of the approaches adopted to achieving sustainable peace. This paper provides a qualitative discourse on modern approaches to promoting sustainable peace in an age of glocal conflicts. The novel innovative approaches explored in this paper include but not limited to hybrid peace building, digital diplomacy, inclusive governance, economic peace building, and cultural peace building inter alia. These innovative approaches prioritize adaptability, flexibility, context-specificity, and multi-stakeholders' engagements in ensuring sustainable peace in an age of global conflicts. The paper adopts qualitative method in its analysis. This paper argues that these innovative approaches and others offer promising and genuine pathways to achieving sustainable peace. The paper emphasizes that by embracing adaptive, flexible, multidisciplinary strategies and plans, Policymakers, Practitioners, Researchers and Scholars in the field of conflict resolution and management can be better off in addressing the complexities and inter-connectedness of glocal conflicts. The paper concludes by the way of highlighting the imperative and urgency of collaborative efforts as well as continuous innovations and breakthroughs in the pursuit of sustainable peace in an age of global conflicts.
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