Introducing the

Global Peace
Almanac

Register of contents · Volume I · Spring 2026

Global Peace Almanac, Volume I — printed edition
17Contributing
Authors

Published by the Effective Peacebuilding Initiative, the Almanac is an annual record of fifteen commissioned pieces. Each edition is printed once and released here one entry per month, gathering reflective writing on peacebuilding in a single curated volume.

Entries
15
Open
03
Sealed
12
Next release
Aug 1

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Part I The State of Peacebuilding

01
The Liberal Peace Is Dead. What's Replacing It?Roger Mac Ginty · Durham University
Published05.26
02
New Peacemakers and Old International InstitutionsRichard Gowan · International Crisis Group
Published06.26
03
A World in Turmoil: What Global Conflict Trends Tell UsSiri Aas Rustad & Henrik Urdal · Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Published07.26
04
The Peacebuilding Field Is Experiencing an Identity Crisis – But That's How We GrowPeter J. Quaranto · Alliance for Peacebuilding / University of Notre Dame
Opens next08.26

Part II What Works — and How Do We Know?

05
On Evidence, Experimentation and RiskInterview · Perry Cammack · Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Sealed09.26
06
Is There Proof That Conflict Prevention Really Works?Ben Valentino · Dartmouth College
Sealed10.26
07
Measuring What Gets Missed: ACLED's Peace Agreement and Ceasefire TrackerClionadh Raleigh & Nohad Eltayeb · ACLED
Sealed11.26
08
Why Peacebuilding Is Falling Short — and Four Practices to Maximize InvestmentsMilt Lauenstein · The Less War Initiative
Sealed12.26

Part III Peace in Practice

09
What Local Ownership Requires of Non-LocalsLibby Hoffman · Catalyst for Peace / Fambul Tok
Sealed01.27
10
At Peace with AI?: What Still Needs InterrogatingAugusta Nannerini · Everyday AI Practices
Sealed02.27
11
A Model for Digital Peacebuilding: Bridging Divides in EthiopiaSamah Abdalrahman · Search for Common Ground
Sealed03.27
12
Reclaiming Narrative Power in a Militarized WorldSonja Borgmann · George Mason University
Sealed04.27

Part IV The Future of Peacebuilding

13
In the Age of AI: Why Data Autonomy and Cooperative Sense-Making Are Peacebuilding ImperativesScott Shadian · Emergence Field Labs
Sealed05.27
14
Revitalizing the Peace Ecosystem: A New Strategy for Peace PhilanthropyIstra Fuhrmann · Peace and Security Funders Group
Sealed06.27
15
Reimagining Security from the Ground UpErika Gregory · Horizon 2045
Sealed07.27

Release of records

The complete Vol. I file opens when Vol. II publishes.

All 250 printed copies are accounted for. Waitlist members receive the complete Volume I PDF, every entry and endnote, on the day Volume II enters the record.