Essential to understanding investment is the concept of capital. One use of the term CAPITAL is a measure in monetary terms of the amount of money put into an organisation. To work with investing in peace, we prefer to use a wider definition of capital.

CAPITAL: Assets used – in the process of providing the conditions for peace – but not used up.

This leads to connections between the four dimension of peace – with myself, others, the Earth and in our structures.

Read more about the four dimensions via this link.

Examples of the kinds of capital that need to be developed and used are illustrated in the diagram below.