Foundation For Post Conflict Development

What Resilience Tastes Like

Resilience is a word that gets used frequently in post-conflict work. Sometimes so frequently that it begins to lose its meaning. The Peace Cookbook is, among other things, an attempt to give it back. The food traditions in this book survived displacement, destruction, and the deliberate targeting of cultural identity that so often accompanies conflict. They persisted. Carried by families across borders, recreated from memory, adapted to new circumstances without losing their essential character. In our latest blog post, we look at what resilience actually tastes like across all eight post-conflict chapters.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/what-resilience-tastes-like/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.



The Diplomacy of the Everyday

Not every act of diplomacy happens in a formal setting. Some of the most consequential relationship-building in international affairs has taken place over meals, in living rooms, in the informal margins of official events. Diplomats know this. So do the community leaders, aid workers, and peacebuilders who operate far from the headlines. The Peace Cookbook creates a framework for what we call the diplomacy of the everyday: the idea that ordinary people, in ordinary settings, can participate in the work of building a more connected and peaceful world. Our latest blog post explores what that looks like in practice.

🔗 Read it at https://www.postconflictdev.org/the-diplomacy-of-the-everyday/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.



Why FPCD Built a Cookbook

We have spent more than 20 years working in post-conflict environments. We know that the hardest part of peacebuilding is rarely the negotiation. It is the long, unglamorous work of rebuilding trust between people who have been told, often for generations, that the other side is the enemy. That work requires tools. Formal ones, certainly. But also informal ones — spaces where people can encounter each other outside of the roles conflict has assigned them. In our latest blog post, we explain why FPCD built a cookbook. And why we believe The Peace Cookbook, winner of Best in the World at the 32nd Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, is one of the most important things we have ever done.

🔗 Read it now at: https://www.postconflictdev.org/why-fpcd-built-a-cookbook/

Launching September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.

What a Cookbook Can Do That a Peace Treaty Cannot

There is no shortage of frameworks for peace. The world has treaties, accords, resolutions, and roadmaps. What it has far less of is trust. Trust is not built in negotiating rooms. It is built slowly, informally, and almost always over shared experience. In our latest blog post, we explore what The Peace Cookbook — winner of Best in the World at the 32nd Gourmand World Cookbook Awards — can do that a peace treaty cannot. And why that matters.

🔗 Read it now at: https://www.postconflictdev.org/what-a-cookbook-can-do-that-a-peace-treaty-cannot/

The Peace Cookbook launches September 21, 2026. thepeacecookbook.com.