P5Y is a fresh and ambitious peace organization, founded by Nathan Otto and Amber Lupton, the authors of ‘Give peace a deadline‘ . In March 2010 P5Y held a 3-day strategic planning session with a small group of inspiring and highly effective people. I assisted the facilitation team in visualizing the vision, the meeting process and the action planning. The maps reflect the collaborative thinking and planning work. The maps also provide an engaging tool to communicate the essence of the next steps to thought leaders, decision makers, donors, partners and peacebuilders of all sorts.
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On March 27, 2010 I attended this Conference at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies of Notre Dame University. A wonderful learning opportunity to meet young peacebuilders, and hear about a variety of research projects and fieldwork.
I did a brief talk on Peacemapping and two demonstrations of live mapping.
I drew these maps during the panel on ‘Creative approaches to peacebuilding’. What you see is real time work, no touch ups. I had 10 minutes for each of them, without knowing the content of the presentations ahead. Just listening and taking my best shot at the can to capture the essence of the talk. Click on the photos for a larger view.
This is a capture of a panel and audience discussion on “careers in peacebuilding” of about 30 minutes. Again no touch ups. The graphic recorder is witnessing the meeting, and reflecting the thoughts and ideas that have been exchanged, in a low tech format. As low tech as the nature of collaborative working and thinking.
Show, don’t tell.
This link gives a powerful impression of what the work of a graphic recorder in international peacebuilding meetings looks like.
Time Magazine has published an illustrative photo of Tony Blair in front of a whiteboard. The words and images capture different presentations in the meeting on peacebuilding efforts in the middle East. A clear and direct way to show the viewer his message.
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March 31, 2010 10:49 pm | 
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