Chris Coulter is Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation, an NGO working towards peaceful solutions of violent conflict. She has more than 20 years' experience in conflict resolution and is a former adviser to the Swedish Foreign Ministry.
In this guest contribution, Chris Coulter, Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation, examines how we can move beyond short-term deterrence to build lasting peace through local ownership, impartiality, women’s meaningful participation, societal trust, and adaptive mediation.