Yasmine Peer 2006 thesis https://aura.american.edu/ndownloader/files/41876508 Recommendations on approaches to preventing communal violence include: (1) initiating a process through which justice and reconciliation can be sought by and for victims/survivors and perpetrators, (2) resisting further communalization and polarization of society, (3) implementing mechanisms of early warning and detection of genocide,1 and (4) promoting a culture of social justice, human rights, and equality of all citizens… Most of us…are in middle positions and work on 2 and 4…
The middle-out approach “is based on the idea that the middle range contains a set of leaders with a determinant location in the conflict who, if integrated properly, might provide the key to creating an infrastructure for achieving and sustaining peace.”