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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 gives an overview of existingprovides definitions and models in the field of peaceconflict andfrom conflictdifferent research.sources.
  • Types of conflict.
  • Conflict analysis and building peace. An introductory lecture on conflict analysis as a tool for building peace
  • 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. Here, you can find an excerpt of the chapter.




  • Conflict Web. This activity aims at exploring participants' associations (attitudes and feelings) with conflict.
  • Conflict examples.
  • Developing a working definition of conflict
  • Why doing conflict analysis?