I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a bit about what I do, which in a sense is quite unique. My marketing and business analysis skills are very much my forte. And I have high hopes that those skills will help us, together, to provide peacebuilding capacity and direction, overcome the pitfalls that others have experienced, and to pioneer new solutions. Very simply, my work is to try to distil volumes and volumes of peace information down into brief 'sound bites' that people can use to transform a culture of violence to a Culture of Peace and Non-violence. Sounds easy, but it has never been done before.
Peace is a very complex issue, and hence finding solutions is most challenging.
This complexity is because many issues impact upon peace. Many of you may work and specialize in one or more of these specific disciplines. My work studies how all these issues fit together in what I call the 'Peace Pie'. An attempt, in one 'big picture', to capture the image of the various disciplines working together in unison. At the core is peace education, followed by rings around the core of the pie.