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Introduction: conflict analysis and building peace

This introduction first provides you with contents and activities to explore what a conflict is. Then it looks at conflict analysis as a tool to build peace. Why should we invest time and do conflict analysis? What purposes can conflict analysis fulfill in peacebuilding initiatives? Also, challenges for doing conflict analysis shall be highlighted.

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What is conflict? This presentation provides definitions of conflict from different sources. Types of conflict. There are different ways to categorise conflict. Here conflict types according to levels and issues are introduced. Conflict analysis and building peace. An introductory lecture on conflict analysis as a tool for building peace. Galtung, Johan, Conflict Theory and Practice. A Perspective, in: Galtung, Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (The Transcend Method). Participants' Manual and Trainers' Manual, United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme, 2000, pp. 13-19. <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/db900SID/LHON-66SN46/$File/Conflict_transfo_Trnascend.pdf> (accessed 23 June 2009). This chapter of the manual provides an illustration of Galtung's ABC triangle of conflict and discusses the life-cycle of a conflict. Fisher, Simon et. al., Working With Conflict. Skills and Strategies for Action, Responding to Conflict, London: Zed Books 2000, pp. 3-5. The Responding to Conflict "Working with Conflict" book is a great training resource. On its first pages it deals with "Understanding Conflict" and provides a definition of conflict. For an excerpt from pp. 3-5, click here. Ayindi, Babo/Jenner, Janice (for USAID), Training of Trainers Manual. Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in Rwanda, ARD, Inc. and Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, June 2008, pp. 2-5. <http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADM806.pdf>The first pages of this Training of Trainers Manual look at the nature and functions of conflict. Conflict and change. Conflict, especially in the Conflict Transformation school of thought, is strongly related to change. This content is a summary of Chapter 4 (Conflict and Change) in Lederach's "The Little Book of Conflict Transformation", published on Beyond Intractability.		Conflict Web. This activity aims at exploring participants' associations (attitudes and feelings) with conflict. Conflict experiences. This activity asks participants to share a conflict experience with the group. It can be used together with the content "What is conflict?". Developing a working definition of conflict. Participants try to find a definition of conflict based on their experiences and the content presented (see "What is conflict?", "Types of conflict" as well as Ayindo and Jenner) Find examples! This activitiy can be used with the content "Types of conflict" and asks participants to find examples for different types of conflict. Why doing conflict analysis? This activity goes together with the content "Conflict analysis and building peace" and explores participants ideas about why conflict analysis is a tool for building peace and what challenges could be faced. Conflict and change. This activity lets participants reflect the relationship between conflict and change: What positive and negative change can conflict produce? Do changes lead to conflict? Use any of these content processing activities.

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What is conflict? This presentation provides definitions of conflict from different sources.

Types of conflict. There are different ways to categorise conflict. Here conflict types according to levels and issues are introduced.

Conflict analysis and building peace. An introductory lecture on conflict analysis as a tool for building peace.

Galtung, Johan, Conflict Theory and Practice. A Perspective, in: Galtung, Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means (The Transcend Method). Participants' Manual and Trainers' Manual, United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme, 2000, pp. 13-19. <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwt.nsf/db900SID/LHON-66SN46/$File/Conflict_transfo_Trnascend.pdf> (accessed 23 June 2009). This chapter of the manual provides an illustration of Galtung's ABC triangle of conflict and discusses the life-cycle of a conflict.

Fisher, Simon et. al., Working With Conflict. Skills and Strategies for Action, Responding to Conflict, London: Zed Books 2000, pp. 3-5. The Responding to Conflict "Working with Conflict" book is a great training resource. On its first pages it deals with "Understanding Conflict" and provides a definition of conflict. For an excerpt from pp. 3-5, click here.

Ayindi, Babo/Jenner, Janice (for USAID), Training of Trainers Manual. Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in Rwanda, ARD, Inc. and Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, June 2008, pp. 2-5. <http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADM806.pdf>The first pages of this Training of Trainers Manual look at the nature and functions of conflict.

Conflict and change. Conflict, especially in the Conflict Transformation school of thought, is strongly related to change. This content is a summary of Chapter 4 (Conflict and Change) in Lederach's "The Little Book of Conflict Transformation", published on Beyond Intractability.

Conflict Web. This activity aims at exploring participants' associations (attitudes and feelings) with conflict.

Conflict experiences. This activity asks participants to share a conflict experience with the group. It can be used together with the content "What is conflict?".

Developing a working definition of conflict. Participants try to find a definition of conflict based on their experiences and the content presented (see "What is conflict?", "Types of conflict" as well as Ayindo and Jenner)

Find examples! This activitiy can be used with the content "Types of conflict" and asks participants to find examples for different types of conflict.

Why doing conflict analysis? This activity goes together with the content "Conflict analysis and building peace" and explores participants ideas about why conflict analysis is a tool for building peace and what challenges could be faced.

Conflict and change. This activity lets participants reflect the relationship between conflict and change: What positive and negative change can conflict produce? Do changes lead to conflict?

Use any of these content processing activities.

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