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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

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    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.

    She walked me through it.

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      Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.

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