PPO - Peace Paradigms Organization

PEACE PARADIGMS is a private consulting company, based in Iraq, established to deliver context-specific solutions for peacebuilding actors to achieve holistic and effective results through their conflict mitigation and prevention efforts.

Iraq remains a fragile state deeply traumatized and divided by 30 years of war, sanctions, occupation, and civil strife. Despite already high levels of violence, the country has faced further instability and renewed conflict since the rise of ISIS and the subsequent tensions that their rise either created or exacerbated. The vision and strategic direction to establish a long-standing status of peace and stability in Iraq leading to its sustainable development do not yet exist, or at least are not yet streamlined.

This leaves a massive gap in terms of designing and implementing peacebuilding programming that speaks to pre-existing strategies at the national and sub-national levels. Adding to this complexity, the resources and capacities of the peacebuilding actors in Iraq still need to be optimized to effectively tackle conflict drivers. Moreover, the changing dynamics of local realities still need to be further investigated and analyzed in order to be at the center of peacebuilding efforts of both national and international actors.

Building off our capacity to bridge the local realities and the technical paradigms and methodologies, Peace Paradigms aims to provide holistic, innovative, and tailored solutions to peacebuilding actors whether national or international to foster sustainable and positive peace.