Peace and security are important in their own right, but they are also fundamental conditions for human development. They both depend on local capacity to build and sustain them - or destroy them, as local actors can be connectors for peace or dividers fanning conflict. Peace cannot be sustainably imposed from the outside, it requires local will, leadership, and capacity.
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