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7 Takeaway Messages and Opportunities for Collaboration
7 Takeaway Messages and Opportunities for Collaboration
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Speakers who made particular observations are identified in parentheses. Takeaway messages for peacebuilders Operational systems engineering offers new and powerful ways of analyzing conflict situations and arriving at ways to address them.
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In its analysis of food security in South Sudan, for example, the breakout group cited individuals, food production systems, education, infrastructure services, security forces, tribes, NGOs, governments, and the international community as just some of the actors that need to be included in a systems map of the country. Figuring out ways to do this quickly and effectively may be a critical element of successful systems approaches to peacebuilding.
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In South Sudan, the analysis of data at different levels of societal organization could enhance food security. In Haiti, analysis of the reasons for homelessness could improve the lives of people living in tent camps.
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Capacity-building initiatives that are currently under way could foster greatly increased collaboration. For example, systems approaches could be an important component of the activities carried out under the recently announced USAID Higher Education Solutions Network, which is designed to establish institutional partnerships that will create and leverage a virtual network of experts who will help USAID solve specific global development challenges.
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