The Sustainable Peace Mapping Initiative is a multi-year initiative composed of interdisciplinary team of scientists and academics, which AC4 convened in 2014. The main objectives of the project are to (1) use the scientific evidence from a wide range of disciplines to identify core factors that influence sustainable peace, (2) create a shared understanding of the relationships between the main factors influencing sustainable peace and their relative importance, and (3) build on this evidence to create an interactive visualization to identify effective interventions, measurable goals, and empirically and locally-informed indicators for tracking trends in sustainable peace.
Along with synthesizing the scholarly perspectives on peace sustainability, a parallel phase of the project involves a series of community-level dialogues with members of conflict-affected communities and civil society which aims to 1) incorporate the perspectives of communities and ground level stakeholders in a manner that will contribute to the development of a comprehensive understanding of sustainable peace and, 2) stimulate community-level discussion and planning regarding policies and practices conducive to enhancing peacefulness locally.