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    Defining peace building, in and out of conflict

    International Alert's new CEO Harriet Lamb, former CEO of Fairtrade International, has long claimed that development's three biggest future challenges will be tackling poverty, conflict and climate change. How does peace-building connect all three?

    By Molly Anders // 04 December 2015

    When I asked Harriet Lamb, the new CEO of London-based peace-building organization International Alert why she decided to leave her post as CEO of Fairtrade International for something as starkly different as peace building, she scoffed.

    “The two are so, so intricately linked!” she said.

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