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| Purpose: | To familiarise participants with force field analysis as a tool to analyse conflict and identify peacebuilding entry points. |
| Participants: | 4 to many |
| Time: | 2 hrs. |
| Materials: | Flip charts Marker pens Handout "Force Field Analysis" Handout "No reforms, no elections" |
| Process: | 1. First, introduce force field analysis as a tool for conflict analysis to the participants. Develop a model force field on the flip chart. Your introductory presentation should take about 10-15 minutes. 2. Engage participants in a brainstorming exercise in plenary focused on the questions: If you think about conflicts in Africa and other parts of the world, what are often driving forces for peace and what are restraining forces that work against peace? (approximately 20 min.). 3. In a next step the force field analysis tool should be applied to a case of conflict. If your group is bigger than 6 participants, organise them in some small groups. Assign the task to the group(s): They will look at the case "No reforms, no elections". After having read the case, they should develop a force field from the perspective of Rev Joshua Waleo. Allow for suffient time to develop the force field (60 min.). 4. Let the groups present their force field analysis in plenary. 5. Now, facilitate a discussion in plenary:
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| Note: | Alternative: Instead of working with the "No reforms, no elections" conflict case, groups could chose a conflict they have experiened, that all group members are familiar with. For the case that the training group comprises participants from different contexts, sub-groups could work with different conflicts and use the tool to explain "their" conflict to the other participants. This way, cross-context learning and exchange can take place. |
| Handout(s): | Handout "Force Field Analysis" Handout "No reforms, no elections" (Odera, Josephine A., No Reforms, No Elections, Centre for Conflict Resolution, Case Studies of Conflict in Africa, in: Track Two. Constructive Approaches to Community and Political Conflict, Vol. 12, Nos 3 and 4, University of Cape Town: 2003, pp. 98-100. <http://www.ccr.uct.ac.za/fileadmin/template/ccr/pdf/TT12-3_4_Sep05.pdf> (accessed 4 August 2009) |
| Source(s): | chachabooth@gmail.com |
