Principle 7: Adopting subsidiarity.
The principle of subsidiarity reorients relations between local actors and other power centres following the logic of "as local as possible, as global as necessary". It places a central focus on national, subnational and local leadership to drive peace processes that are responsive and accountable to the needs of local communities. Subsidiarity involves new ways of understanding accountability and responsibility for the successful outcomes of any peace process . Who responsible for making peace sustainable? How can they be held accountable and to whom? Ultimately, local actors and individuals , including political elites, social groups and business actors , are responsible for the sustainabilityof peace processes . Each must also acknowledge that they are part of larger political, socio-economic and gendered dynamics that fuelled conflict and tensions in the first place, and that local conflicts and insecurities do not exist in isolation nor emerge in a vacuum. The id...