This short concept note outlines a series of innovative approaches contained within a long-term participatory conflict transformation process that is itself innovative in that it seeks to develop a systemic response to a complex conflict system. The process is driven by an alliance of civil society actors known collectively as Partners in Conflict Transformation, PICOT, working across the North Eastern and Eastern districts, along the border of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Similar types of processes have also been initiated in other contexts, drawing lessons and making contextually specific adjustments to the basic overall approach.