UMass Boston

Project Team: Karen Ross (Executive Director/Faculty Fellow), Paula Rayman (Research Professor, UMass Boston), Marcia Mundt (PhD, Public Policy and Public Affairs), Hannah Brown (Center Fellow), David Sulewski (PhD candidate, Global Governance and Human Security), Charla Burnett (PhD candidate, Global Governance and Human Security), Yuliya Rashchupkina (PhD, UMass Boston)

Description: This initiative explored how grassroots peace building efforts and social justice movements can scale up and broaden the impact of their work. Following the development of a conceptual model of scaling up, the project team engaged in a series of case studies exploring different facets of this process, including: the role of social media in scaling up; the role of civil society in scaling up the Northern Ireland peace process; the significance of joint Jewish-Palestinian partnership in sustaining and scaling peace building work in Israel; and the role of women and gender justice issues in scaling up in both Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine.  

Our empirical work resulted in publication of a toolkit, Scaling Up Peacebuilding and Social Change, written with the goal of helping community-based organizations and activists scale up and broaden the impact of their work.