They are committed to preventing conflict and building resilient societal structures and relationships that consolidate peace. Their evidence-based peacebuilding methodology enables the identification of underlying conflict dynamics and key drivers of change, allowing them to recommend strategies to partners for interrupting and transforming societal trends that lead to violent conflict. They support partners in designing and testing conflict transformation theories of change before endorsing or funding new peacebuilding programmes. This approach ensures that organisations can allocate resources cost-effectively, prioritising programmes with the greatest potential for positive peacebuilding outcomes.

Their approach is grounded in a strong commitment to accompanying partners on their journeys toward building peaceful societies. At every stage of engagement with national partners, they identify opportunities to train local researchers and practitioners in the use of evidence-based peacebuilding research methodologies. Their aim is to share and transfer knowledge, empowering national experts to design and implement community-level peacebuilding and conflict prevention initiatives. The formation of national reflection groups and the transfer of knowledge to national stakeholders are core components of their co-creation philosophy. This philosophy is designed to strengthen the effectiveness and impact of peacebuilding efforts. Through this process, they accompany national partners—from across government and broader society—in achieving outcomes that contribute to positive social change.