NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs (CGA) students, faculty, and guests from the peacebuilding community joined together for the academic year kickoff of CGA’s Initiative for Peacebuilding Through Education and an engaging discussion on how the concept of Sustaining Peace is changing the paradigm of how we build peace. A panel of MSGA students who have recently completed summer graduate student consultancies through the Workshop in Applied Peacebuilding addressed the importance of Sustaining Peace from the perspective of young practitioners. Following their discussion, Paige Arthur, Deputy Director at NYU’s Center on International Cooperation, Marc Jacquand from the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General and Youssef Mahmoud, Senior Advisor at the International Peace Institute discussed why some actors have begun to distance themselves from the concept of Peacebuilding while the idea of Sustaining Peace has begun to gain traction at the United Nations and elsewhere.