Conflict Transformation Flashcards
Conflict Transformation
long-term, focuses on both ending crises and healing (de-escalation and engaging/escalating conflict to force constructive changes), addressing underlying and overt issues, sees the problem as an opportunity to change systems, encompasses current/future events in the context of relationships not centrally about closure; associated with John Paul Lederach
John Paul Lederach: Conflict Transformation
views a problem as an opportunity to explore and understand context, system, and relationships to address issues and create sustainable peace, constructive change requires functions and processes to push the conflict into the open, involves considering the episode of conflict, past patterns, and future possibilities for change
