什么是建设和平？

And when you search for a definition of peacebuilding, it’s technical, wonky, and complex. Here's one example: 
当你搜索建设和平的定义时，它是技术性的、不稳定的和复杂的。下面是一个示例：

Peacebuilding covers a broad range of measures implemented in the context of emerging, current, or post‐conflict situations and which are explicitly guided and motivated by a primary commitment to the prevention of violent conflict and the promotion of a lasting and sustainable peace. (From the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008)
建设和平包括在新出现的、当前的或冲突后局势中实施的一系列措施，这些措施的明确指导和动机是预防暴力冲突和促进持久和可持续和平的主要承诺。（摘自经济合作与发展组织，2008年）

And here's another one:  这是另一个：

Peacebuilding involves a range of measures targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict by strengthening national capacities at all levels for conflict management, and to lay the foundations for sustainable peace and development. Peacebuilding strategies must be coherent and tailored to the specific needs of the country concerned, based on national ownership, and should comprise a carefully prioritized, sequenced, and therefore relatively narrow set of activities aimed at achieving the above objectives. (From the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, 2010)
建设和平涉及一系列措施，旨在通过加强各级国家管理冲突的能力来减少陷入或重新陷入冲突的风险，并为可持续和平与发展奠定基础。建设和平战略必须以国家自主权为基础，连贯一致，适合有关国家的具体需要，并应包括一套旨在实现上述目标的优先次序、有序、因此相对狭窄的活动。（摘自联合国建设和平支助办公室，2010年）

If these definitions don’t make sense, we don’t blame you. They are super wonky and difficult to understand. Definitions like these are part of the problem.
如果这些定义没有意义，我们不会责怪你。它们非常古怪且难以理解。像这样的定义是问题的一部分。

In 2018, AfP and its members worked to get peacebuilding officially acknowledged as a word in multiple dictionaries, including HarperCollins, Macmillan, and Cambridge University Press. But in digital documents when you write peacebuilding, you will see a red squiggly line underneath the word “peacebuilding,” and that’s annoying! 
2018 年，法新社及其成员努力让建设和平在多个词典中被正式承认为一个词，包括哈珀柯林斯、麦克米伦和剑桥大学出版社。但是在数字文档中，当你写建设和平时，你会看到“建设和平”这个词下面有一条红色的波浪线，这很烦人！

So what is peacebuilding?
那么什么是建设和平呢？

Peacebuilders analyze violent conflict, violence, and fragility to understand what is driving it, preventing it from breaking out, and triggering it. Additionally, it’s vital to understand who can mobilize violence or peace, a conflict’s trajectory, and most importantly, what works and doesn't work to prevent and reduce it and build sustainable peace. But remember, all programs have the potential to cause harm, so it is vital to apply evidence-based peacebuilding research. Just because you have a good idea doesn’t mean that it will work.
和平建设者分析暴力冲突、暴力和脆弱性，以了解是什么推动了它，阻止了它的爆发，并触发了它。此外，了解谁可以动员暴力或和平、冲突的轨迹，最重要的是，了解哪些对预防和减少暴力、建立可持续和平有效、无效，这一点至关重要。但请记住，所有项目都有可能造成伤害，因此应用循证建设和平研究至关重要。仅仅因为你有一个好主意并不意味着它会起作用。

While conflict is inevitable, violence and violent conflict are not. But peace isn’t the absence of violence and violent conflict.
虽然冲突是不可避免的，但暴力和暴力冲突却不是。但和平并不是没有暴力和暴力冲突。

There is no better way than asking peacebuilders to tell us what peacebuilding looks like in practice. Peace doesn't just happen; we have to build it!
没有比请和平建设者告诉我们建设和平在实践中是什么样子更好的方法了。和平不是随随便便就能实现的;我们必须建造它！