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Vertical Integration: A Dynamic Practice Promoting Transformative Peacebuilding

Scholarship and practice in areas of both peacebuilding and development have long been concerned with the question of how to maximise efforts at different levels and use resources effectively towards producing coherent results that spawn society-wide impacts and benefits. The notion of ‘vertical integration’ – at the most basic level, a strategy to link actors, ideas and efforts vertically for peacebuilding and development impact – is increasingly being used to capture and develop knowledge, experience and practice in this area. This special issue of the Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JPD) brings together a host of authors from around the world who share their grounded insights on this topic.