ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that in order to make sustainable and systemic change in a society, peacebuilders need tools that allow them to see the world in terms of wholes and not just parts. It reviews Richardson's metaphor of 'stepping in' or 'stepping back', by developing a systemic theory of peacebuilding that requires to step back from looking at one complex system to look at how systemic change happens across different systems. The structural, attitudinal, and transactional (SAT) model holds the effecting lasting, systemic change in a social system that requires change in all domains of the society. Peace Writ Large (PWL) can be achieved by using transactional peacebuilding to initiate a dynamic and mutually reinforcing process of change in the structural and attitudinal domains of a society. The building peace in Afghanistan and effecting corporate change at General Motors entail very different processes.
