This chapter discusses the dynamic relationship between international interveners and the beneficiaries they hope to serve. It presents the tensions between elite actors and those they serve and how these groups interact in a push and pull, hybrid relationship to negotiate a local and contextualized peace. This different epistemological perspective allows us to more effectively address some of the flaws raised in the previous chapter regarding current efforts to measure peace. The chapter discusses in greater depth the conceptual challenges in measuring difficult concepts such as peace, and demonstrates why it is necessary to include beneficiaries in the design of measurement and evaluation tools in more meaningful ways. The chapter provides the theoretical grounding for the everyday indicators approach and gives background on what is known in the social sciences as participatory numbers – quantitative data collection in collaboration with researched populations. It concludes by presenting the everyday indicators framework as a technology of Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK).