Everyday peace is the bottom-up influence of'ordinary people' on peacebuilding. The modes of thinking, action, and speech between individuals or small groups of individuals that everyday peace uses are outside the scope of the larger top-down institutionalised acts performed by governments or militias. When talking about pro-peace interventions, one cannot focus on only the 'big peace' but must also reflect on real-life situations between ordinary people. Everyday peace'... is the first peace in the sense of the first tentative steps towards accommodation as a violent conflict comes to a close, and it is the last peace in terms of the last intergroup contact to survive as societies slip towards violent conflict' (4).
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