A brown bag lunch discussion with Youssef Mahmoud, Senior Adviser, International Peace Institute. Students were given the opportunity to explore the transition from traditionally understood peacebuilding to the sustaining peace agenda and the emergence of prevention as a central concept to conflict management. Mahmoud encouraged students to shift the paradigm so that the focus is on “identifying context-specific capacities as the starting point” in order to strengthen the factors already in communities which have led to them being peaceful and just societies.