Our Programs

In a diversified society, developing a programmatic response to peace building priorities is a multi-step process that requires conflict analysis, including a consideration of the specific ways in which conflict impacts genders differently; a theory of change; an informed risk assessment, and a robust monitoring and evaluation framework.

Since we cannot find peace by avoiding conflict, LSD believes that Conflict transformation is a long-term, gradual and complex process, requiring sustained engagement and interaction. It is not just an approach and set of techniques, but a way of thinking about and understanding conflict itself.

In the process of promoting peace, conflict transformation invariably involves a third, impartial party, in order to help actors alter their cognitive and emotional views on the ‘Other’, thereby helping to break down divisions towards a clear understanding of the richness of the Lebanese diversity.