Conflict resolution - mediation - resources
Websites/Multiple Documents
Description:
Studies and other documents on Burma/Myanmar as well as on peace and conflict in other countries in SE Asia
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of entry/update:
2012-10-22
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education, Peace processes, ceasefires and ceasefire talks (websites, documents, reports and studies)
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English
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"Conflict resolution is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution. Committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest of the group (e.g., intentions; reasons for holding certain beliefs) and by engaging in collective negotiation.[1] Dimensions of resolution typically parallel the dimensions of conflict in the way the conflict is processed. Cognitive resolution is the way disputants understand and view the conflict, with beliefs, perspectives, understandings and attitudes. Emotional resolution is in the way disputants feel about a conflict, the emotional energy. Behavioral resolution is reflective of how the disputants act, their behavior.[2] Ultimately a wide range of methods and procedures for addressing conflict exist, including negotiation, mediation, mediation-arbitration,[3] diplomacy, and creative peacebuilding. .."
Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-29
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"Conflict transformation is the process by which conflicts, such as ethnic conflict, are transformed into peaceful outcomes. It differs from conflict resolution and conflict management approaches in that it recognises "that contemporary conflicts require more than the reframing of positions and the identification of win-win outcomes. The very structure of parties and relationships may be embedded in a pattern of conflictual relationships that extend beyond the particular site of conflict. Conflict transformation is therefore a process of engaging with and transforming the relationships, interests, discourses and, if necessary, the very constitution of society that supports the continuation of violent conflict"..."
Source/publisher:
Wikipedia
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-22
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"We work with people directly affected by conflict to build lasting peace. Together, we believe peace is within our power...
In Myanmar, we work with people across the country to help them build peace.
We work with local civil society groups to reduce sexual and gender-based violence, and to advocate for more inclusive and comprehensive approaches to integrating gender into peacebuilding.
We work with the government, civil society, businesses, international agencies and other stakeholders to strengthen land and natural resource governance, in order to help reduce land and natural resource conflicts and support sustainable natural resource management.
We also work with economic development partners, including local businesses, to encourage the use of conflict-sensitive business practices and peace-conducive economic development.
Our work is important because Myanmar continues to face major challenges in building sustainable and inclusive peace. To support durable peace in the country, it is vital that the drivers of conflict are addressed in a conflict- and gender-sensitive way.
We have been working in Myanmar since 2012..."
Source/publisher:
International Alert
Date of entry/update:
2018-07-29
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"TRANSCEND has as its mission: To bring about a more peaceful world by using action, education/training, dissemination and research to transform conflicts nonviolently, with empathy and creativity, for acceptable and sustainable outcomes.
By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively - a never-ending process;
By transforming conflicts we mean enabling the parties to go ahead in a self-reliant, acceptable and sustainable manner;
By without violence we mean that this process should avoid any cultural violence that justifies direct or structural violence;
By with empathy we mean the ability also to understand the conflict the way the parties understand the conflict themselves;
By creatively we mean channelling conflict energy toward new realities, accommodating the parties and meeting basic human needs..."
Source/publisher:
Transcend
Date of entry/update:
2016-08-18
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English
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Videos featuring conflict analysis and resolution pioneer Johan Galtung
Source/publisher:
Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-02
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English
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Videos featuring conflict analysis academic and practitioner John Paul Lederach
Source/publisher:
Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-02
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"In 2003 we started to undertake a project we had long talked about and planned, namely to record visually the recollections and views of some of the individual scholars and practitioners who initiated the field of conflict analysis and peace research in the 1950s and 1960s....
Many of these ?parents of the field” were now in their 70s and 80s, but most were still working and researching. Some were continuing to teach the next generation of students in the field, while others were still pursuing the ideal - first enunciated by one of the pioneers from the 1940s, Kurt Lewin - of becoming ?practical theorists,” that is, scholars who actually used some of their skills and knowledge to help resolve conflicts in the real world.
The original idea was limited in scope, namely to video-tape interviews with 15 ?key? figures in the development of ?conflict and peace research.” The issue of what to call the field [or the discipline] became one of the questions on which we sought enlightenment, as it rapidly became clear that the early days had seen much discussion about what the new field of study should be called, what its main focus should be, and how it might best have an impact on the world of problems and policy...".....Interviews with
Chadwick Alger,
Landrum Bolling,
Elise Boulding,
John Burton,
Anthony De Reuck,
Morton Deutsch,
Asbjorne Eide,
Roger Fisher,
Johan Galtung,
Walter Isard,
Herbert Kelman,
Chris Mitchell,
James O?Connell,
Betty Reardon,
Paul Rogers,
Gene Sharp,
J. David Singer,
Paul Wahrhaftig,
Ralph White,
Peter Wallensteen.
Source/publisher:
School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution via Youtube
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-02
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Websites/Multiple Documents
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English
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Individual Documents
Source/publisher:
satash8 via Youtube
Date of publication:
1970-01-01
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
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Individual Documents
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English
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of publication:
2012-11-18
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
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Individual Documents
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English
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Source/publisher:
Plum Village
Date of publication:
2007-09-26
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-20
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text
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"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness.....The VOL.1 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several versions :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-09-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-02
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
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"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness.....The VOL.2 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several versions :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-09-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-02
Grouping:
Individual Documents
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Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
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"What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight ? That we laugh ? Cry ? Our curiosity ? The quest for discovery ?
Driven by these questions, filmmaker and artist Yann Arthus-Bertrand spent three years collecting real-life stories from 2,000 women and men in 60 countries. Working with a dedicated team of translators, journalists and cameramen, Yann captures deeply personal and emotional accounts of topics that unite us all; struggles with poverty, war, homophobia, and the future of our planet mixed with moments of love and happiness..... The VOL.3 deals with the themes of love, women, work and poverty.
In order to share this unique image bank everywhere and for everyone,
HUMAN exist in several versions :
A theatre version (3h11) , a tv version (2h11) and a 3 volumes version for the web..."
Yann Arthus-Bertrand (film-maker), Armand Amar (composer)
Source/publisher:
GoodPlanet Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-09-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-06-02
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Individual Documents
Category:
Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Inter-Communal violence and discrimination - global
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A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar
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"HUMAN's Musics - A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar "I am deeply taken with traditional music, it moves me, it connects you to emotion. The idea with HUMAN was to create songs that would reflect the same emotion generated by the interviews. I wanted things to open up, to open up one’s heart, to let the sadness be without any restraint. HUMAN has been one of these rare moments in my life as a film composer during which I could express all these different cultures at the same time : either working on minimalist songs or meeting with these singers and musicians coming from all around the world. Which note did I first produce ? I had more like a global vision in mind, an atmosphere that would merge into the film and that would bring people together, this was my starting point. The part I created for the Mongolian sequence might be the best summary of the atmosphere I wanted the film to have. "
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Armand Amar
Source/publisher:
www.goodplanet.org
Date of publication:
2017-05-19
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-10
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Climate Change - climate education, introductions, films, guides, links, bibliographies, The global environment - resources
Language:
English
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Sub-title:
A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar
Description:
"HUMAN's Musics - A film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand / Composed by Armand Amar "I am deeply taken with traditional music, it moves me, it connects you to emotion. The idea with HUMAN was to create songs that would reflect the same emotion generated by the interviews. I wanted things to open up, to open up one’s heart, to let the sadness be without any restraint. HUMAN has been one of these rare moments in my life as a film composer during which I could express all these different cultures at the same time : either working on minimalist songs or meeting with these singers and musicians coming from all around the world. Which note did I first produce ? I had more like a global vision in mind, an atmosphere that would merge into the film and that would bring people together, this was my starting point. The part I created for the Mongolian sequence might be the best summary of the atmosphere I wanted the film to have. "
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Armand Amar
Source/publisher:
www.goodplanet.org
Date of publication:
2017-05-19
Date of entry/update:
2019-02-10
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I. HOUSING, LAND AND PROPERTY ISSUES AND CONFLICT:
CAUSE, CONSEQUENCE AND CURE...
II. HLP ISSUES IN THE MYANMAR PEACE PROCESS
AND HOW BEST TO ADDRESS THEM...
III. PEACE AND POST-CONFLICT AGREEMENTS
AND HLP ISSUES: A COUNTRY-BY-
COUNTRY OVERVIEW...
IV. CONCLUSIONS....."Any successful outcome to the peace process in Myanmar will invariably need to address
the wide range of housing, land and property (HLP) rights issues that are central components in
all of the unresolved conflicts in the country. At least superficially, there is growing
evidence that
various actors engaged in the peace process are increasingly recognising
that the resolution of
HLP rights issues will be critical towards building
the foundations needed for the long-term peace
and stability of the country. The agreement of ten key land and environment principles at the
May 2017
Panglong 2
Summit by the
government and ethnic negotiating
armed ethnic
groups
provides an important basis for further agreement on HLP issues as the process unfolds. This
paper aims to bolster this process by providing
a brief overview of how HLP matters have been
addressed in other peace processes throughout the world over the past 25 years, some of which
may prove inspirational to peace negotiators in Myanmar. There is a wide range of experience
about how and in which manner HLP issues have been included in peace agreements, and HLP
issues are increasingly recognized for their multi-dimensional impacts upon conflict. Indeed,
HLP issues can be the cause of conflict, a consequence of conflict, and an important means for
securing
a sustainable peace following
conflict.
HLP concerns and the human rights and other
considerations attached to them are now widely agreed to form vital ingredients in the quest
for long-term economic vitality and social stability following
conflict. As a result, HLP issues are
growing
in prominence and are now viewed as key considerations in conflict prevention and
peacebuilding
initiatives...
Despite the fact that virtually all recent major peace processes and post-conflict periods
of reconstruction in other countries have sought to structurally address the severe HLP consequences of the conflict concerned, there is a significant risk in Myanmar that because of the deep
vested interests attached to so many of them, HLP issues will be perceived as too sensitive or
complex to be properly addressed in any eventual agreement. It is important, therefore, to foster
awareness about HLP issues among
those engaged in, or supporting
, negotiations and planning
for the post-conflict period. Without adequate preparation of all stakeholders involved in,
or supporting, the negotiation process, a national level settlement may be undermined by local
level HLP
grievances and conflicts. In the alternative scenario, in which there is no national level
agreement, an alternative strategy for sensitizing
actors to HLP risks and opportunities will nonetheless be required..."
Source/publisher:
Norwegian Refugee Council, Displacement Solutions
Date of publication:
2018-02-08
Date of entry/update:
2018-02-08
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Law and policy on land in Burma/Myanmar, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Laws, decrees, bills and regulations relating to land, property and planning (commentary)
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"Beyond the Toolkit: Supporting Peace Processes in Asia posits that existing peace process support models do not reflect what we know about the nature of conflict, how it ends, and how peace processes are sustained and peace consolidated. The new paper highlights a more politically-informed approach to supporting peace, including examples from the Foundation?s activities in the Philippines, Myanmar and Nepal. This is the fourth paper in the "Working Politically in Practice" paper series.
Lisa Denney, Patrick Barron
Source/publisher:
Asia Foundation
Date of publication:
2015-12-17
Date of entry/update:
2016-03-06
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English
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About this toolkit: "The gender & conflict analysis toolkit for peacebuilders provides
practical guidance to peacebuilding practitioners on using gender
and conflict analysis.
Integrating gender into conflict analysis can increase the inclusivity and
effectiveness of peacebuilding interventions. It does this by enhancing
the understanding of underlying gender power relations and how these
influence and are affected by armed conflict and peacebuilding. It sheds
light on the drivers of conflict, (potential) agents and opportunities for
peace, as well as practices of exclusion and discrimination including in
peacebuilding interventions themselves.
There are some very useful gender and conflict analysis resources
available (see list of references, p. 58) but few are short and practical.
Conciliation Resources? intention in producing this toolkit is to fill a
gap in guidance available to peacebuilding practitioners on how to do
gender-sensitive conflict analysis and to provide this in an accessible
way, sharing insights from our own work.
The toolkit can be used in a variety of ways: to deepen understanding of
the concept of gender; to conduct peace and conflict analysis in a given
context; or as conflict analysis training materials.
The toolkit consists of three main parts:
2 Part I (p. 8) explores the concept of gender and its relevance
to peacebuilding. It also details the ?what?, ?why?, and ?how? of
gender-sensitive conflict analysis. The textboxes included provide
examples of how Conciliation Resources engages with gender and the
lessons it has drawn from mainstreaming gender in its work, including
in relation to conflict analysis.
2 Part II (p. 24) consists of a list of guiding questions on
gender-sensitive conflict analysis. It is illustrative of the types of
questions that could be asked, rather than an exhaustive checklist to
work through. The first set of questions focuses on how to go about
Conciliation Resources | Gender & conflict analysis toolkit 5
gender-sensitive conflict analysis, while the second set focuses on
what to analyse. Please note that these questions are not necessarily
meant to be taken straight from the document and used in conflict
analysis workshops; rather, they are to be reflected upon in advance of
a conflict analysis exercise.
2 Part III (p. 32) provides a set of exercises to help explore gender
in relation to peacebuilding. These exercises can be used to further
understanding of gender and its relevance to the field of peace and
security, and/or to explore gender in relation to peace and conflict
in a particular context.
A quick summary of the key points of the toolkit can be found in the
section ?Gender & conflict analysis: the essentials? (p. 6).
This toolkit is based on Conciliation Resources? experience in
conflict-affected contexts and draws on our participatory approach
to conflict analysis. It was developed over a two-year time frame and
informed by research, reflection and discussion, involving various
colleagues and partners and also numerous external experts (see
Acknowledgements for further details).
This is a first edition of the gender & conflict analysis toolkit for
peacebuilders. We aim to further test and update this document in light
of further experience and evidence-based learning. Please note that
the toolkit was written with an organisation like Conciliation Resources
in mind: an international peacebuilding NGO with a strong focus on
inclusiveness and support to peace processes. It aims to complement
rather than replace existing tools for conflict analysis.
While gender-sensitive conflict analysis is key to gender-sensitive
programming, on its own it is not likely to produce gender-sensitive
programming. Reflection and action is required, for example, to ensure
buy-in for work at all levels of peacebuilding organisations, to promote
inclusion in all the phases of peacebuilding, and to address specific risks
in practice, or to engender data..."
Source/publisher:
Conciliation Resources
Date of publication:
2015-12-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-24
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English
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Executive summary: "International peacebuilding actors have so far been wary of engagement with political parties. However,
there is growing recognition of the importance of working with local political systems, institutions and
parties in the promotion of peace. It is therefore important that international actors strengthen their
understanding of political parties in conflict-affected contexts and how such parties relate to conflict and
peacebuilding, as well as examine how best to deepen engagement with them.
This report examines the nature of political parties in conflict-affected contexts and the challenges such
parties face in becoming effective actors for peace. It analyses three cases ? Sri Lanka, Nepal and
Myanmar ? where parties have played very different roles in relation to both the grievances and struggles
that have fuelled conflict, and efforts to build and sustain peace. It then discusses how lessons from these
cases can inform the work of international peacebuilding actors.
Finally, the report examines the track record of the international community in working with political
parties in conflict-affected contexts. It argues that international actors must move beyond ?blueprint”
approaches to party support and instead develop more comprehensive and context-relevant responses to
the specific challenges that such parties face."
Clare Castillejo
Source/publisher:
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center
Date of publication:
2016-01-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-24
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Individual Documents
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Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
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"This publications showcases final short papers from 2011 graduates of CPCS? Applied Conflict Transformation Master?s Course that we offer in cooperation with the Pannasastra University in Phnom Penh..."....."....In the following chapters an array of issues are tackled resulting in a colourful collection of insight and analyses. Chapter 1 situates the works through a detailed introduction to the ACTS course, and a discussion of the effectiveness of action learning to build the capacity of peace practitioners in the region. In Chapter 2 we begin to see the work of the students themselves as they engage and challenge key assumptions and perceptions of poverty in Vietnam and conflict in Afghanistan; ultimately these reports urge careful and rigorous analysis of the context of any intervention. Chapter 3 sees the theoretical discussion of two Designs for Peace. These articles provide innovative alternatives for responding to violence both in Bangladesh (by developing a peace curriculum for youth) and in Cambodia (through the architectural design of a museum for peace). In Chapter 4 we are presented with three articles which seek to share the larger lessons from the authors? own experiences at the practical level. This is achieved through discussing donor cooperation in Banda Aceh, community feedback mechanisms in the GRP ? MILF peace process, and civil-military cooperation in Maguindanao. Finally Chapter 5 takes on a more personal face with two particularly reflective accounts by the
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students, who question how to improve their own role as practitioners in Sri Lanka and Thailand..."
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2012-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-23
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Individual Documents
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Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
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English
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"Co-authored by CPCS Academic Director Noah Taylor, this conceptual paper explores the diversity of perspectives on peace moving beyond the idea of peace in relation to the absence of conflict and the presence of security. In this framework peace is explored as impure, diverse and conflictive, advocating for an understanding of peace that embraces diversity, and engages with conflict rather than suppresses it.".....Abstract: "While the central question of diversity has often been how to live in peace with difference, we approach the
question —what happens when diversity also involves conflicting approaches to peace? This paper contains the authors?
reflections on the colloquium with the same title held in the On Diversity Conference 2012 in Vancouver, where the
authors and participants explored peace itself as an expression of diversity. We argue that an attempt to answer this
question requires a change in focus; if there is no longer a unifying peace, how can
we
engage with diversity in a
plurality of conflicting peaces? Mainstream peace and conflict studies literature understands conflict as opposite to
peace. Supported in contemporary critical research, we argue that the concept of peace rather than being perfect,
absolute and pure is in fact impure, diverse, and conflictive. Hence, an understanding of peace that attempts to embrace
diversity will necessarily be relational, include conflict and
engage
with it, in contrast to silencing it or suppressing it.
We argue that instead of being its opposite, conflict is in fact
an
essential component of peace. To elaborate on
the
argument, we deal with two of the possible interpretations of peace in history and culture: peace linked to security,
understood as the eradication of threats from others and therefore recurring to ideals of perfection and homogeneity; and
peace as an
experience of harmony, highlighting mystical or musical harmony, which, far from being pure, emerges
also
out of conflicting tones. We conclude that both in traditions of mysticism and in security politics, diversities
in friction lie
at the core of experiencing
and conceptualizing
peace."
Florencia Benitez-Schaefer, Shawn Bryant, Catalina Vallejo, Noah Taylor
Source/publisher:
The International Journal of Community Diversity, Illinois USA via Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2013-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-23
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Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
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English
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"This mapping exercise seeks to provide a better understanding of national apologies by analysing the nuances associated with the term while studying examples of apologies made by states to their people."....Abstract: "The national apology is a phenomenon which can loosely be defined
as a collective, political, intra-state apology, issued from one group
to another through the use of appropriate representation. Broadly
speaking the ?age of apology? started twenty years ago, yet even
with age the term ?national apology? has remained one which is
particularly analytically elusive. The bulk of the concerned literature
has attempted to face up to this dilemma, to clarify the issues and
fortify (or discredit) the utility of the practice. However what it
has achieved is confusion over the points of suitable definition,
purpose, form, delivery, target audience, and so on. This paper
attempts to address these issues through analysing the nuances
associated with the term, to contribute meaningfully to the topical
discussion through a mapping exercise. As such this paper seeks to
provide the knowledge for understanding both composition and
critiques of national apologies.
The process of mapping national apologies is started through
mounting a discussion of its variables which are historical
location (historic or recent), incidence (discrete or sustained) and
significance (whether it remains relevant in the current context).
It then continues to argue that the correct form for a national
apology requires paying particular attention to the publicity, official
character, and ceremony of the statement, as well as by choosing an
appropriate speaker. Such contextual adequacies however are not
enough to validate an apology. The statement must include within
its content an acknowledgement of the injustices committed, an
expression of remorse, a guarantee of non-repetition, and refrain
from appealing for forgiveness. Finally complementing such an
apology with further reparative action (measures of sincerity,
National Apologies: Mapping the complexities of validity4
corrective action, and material compensation) give the best chance
for a national apology to be considered valid and accepted.
In conclusion the report affirms that although the mapping
exercise has surely been informative to the reader, and may
act as a resource for the analysis and correct construction of
national apologies, the information put forward is clearly not
intended to be indisputable. It is a current theory in the face
of a lack of engagement with this under studied topic, and the
author?s intention has been to inspire debate. When this field has
a significant potential to contribute to reconciliation and peace
efforts around the globe it seems inappropriate to accept it as
unexplainable. Thus, the report finishes by suggesting it is only
through persistent and constructive dialogue between academics
and practitioners that we may hope to one day reach consensus
on best practice of national apologies."
Eneko Sanz
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2012-04-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-23
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Individual Documents
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Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
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English
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"Encouraging practitioners to question and challenge narratives around strategic peace building frameworks this research critically analyses such narratives and shows that they tend to be subjective in nature, signal certain political positions and are often framed through the lens of modernist state-building theory.".....Introduction: "There are innumerable actors engaging
post-conflict contexts
at the international, national and
local level. Their activities target a broad range of
political, economic, social and cultural
agendas,
spanning
long pe
riods of time and
enduring
particularly
unstable conditions.
Since the publication
of
An Agenda for Peace,2
the international community has
been driven
to
amalgamate
all
such
activities into an increasingly broad
and
multidimensional enterprise labelled
post-conflict
peacebuilding. As ti
me passed,
additional
elements related to this new concept
continued to be
identified and
duly
incorporated into the undertaking,
seeing in practice the ever-widening
scope
and breadth
of
peace
building.
In light of this, and after a string of less than successful experiences,
practitioners and policy-makers alike recognized the need to
tame
such complexity and requested
a more coherent master plan.
In response to this demand s
trategic planning frameworks for
int
ernational post-conflict
peace
building (SFPs)3
have been pr
oduced since the mid-nineties,
by
the UN, IFIs, governments of donor and conflict-affe
cted countries, regional organiz
ations and
NGOs. By 2010 the g7+ group of fragile states
had identified ?the pr
oliferation of strategic
frameworks”
as a
significant
challenge to
peace
building.4
Meanwhile, the European Parliament
was considering drafting the EU?s own SFP.5
SFPs are policy
planning
documents comprising analysis and recommendations. They belong to the
genre of technical-
administrative texts but,
as many plans do, SFPs
also
make use of narrative
devices
usually associated with literary works. In trying to produce a coherent prioritization,
phasing and sequencing of activities, they construct a plot with
a
beginning, middle and end. In
the
process of attempting to
identify and coordinate multiple actors,
SFPs
make distinctions between
main and secondary characters, and
between
heroes, villains, and victims. And in trying to give a
common meaning and purpo
se to the myriad
of
tasks performed under the label of
peace
building,
these documents
portray themes of progress and crisis against the backdrop of dramatic stories
about the fight between good and evil.
This paper will try to illustrate how such
narrativity
present in SFPs signals certain political
positions.
To achieve this it will present
an outline of the narrative analysis approach to policy
planning. This is followed by a description of how the methodology has been adapted for this
study to the requir
ements of SFPs. The analysis is then divided in two distinct parts. The first
discusses some features of the characters in the
?peace
building story”: who are the heroes and
their allies, the anti-subjects, the donor, and what
does this signify.
The second
part deals with
plot: how SFPs are structured around the triad
Security-Development-Political Reform, and how
this produces a set of recognizable stories.
It is
considered
how the attempt to give coherence to a
collection of literally hundreds of episodes,
each of them an intricate narrative in itself, reflects the
fact that the
peace
building story may turn out to be a version of another one, namely the
modernist
state
building story. The paper ends with some reflections about how a narrative policy
analysis
can help us read and construct different discourses on
peace
building."
Eneko Sanz
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2013-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-23
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Individual Documents
Category:
Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
Language:
English
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Description:
"his paper reflects on Conciliation Resources? experience of formal hybrid mediation support in the Mindanao peace process. Key lessons are drawn from this new approach and its potential for further use in the field of mediation and conflict transformation is evaluated.....Summary: -The International Contact Group (ICG) in Mindanao is the first
ever formal
hybrid
mediation support initiative..It developed organically over 15 years of protracted negotiations...Diplomats and international NGOs played complementary
roles, strengthening the overall value of their participation...The experience of the ICG suggests that hybrid Contact
Groups can be a valuable response to the complexity of
long-standing conflicts
Kristian Herbolzheimer, Emma Leslie
Source/publisher:
Conciliation Resources via Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Date of publication:
2013-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dialogue/transition: resources, Peace Education, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources
Language:
English
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Description:
"Kyoko Okumoto, a well-respected
Japanese peacebuilder, once said to
me, ?I firmly believe that to be an
effective peacebuilder you need to
be able to trust.” By trust she did not
mean a blind, naïve faith in whomever or
whatever comes along; she meant a will-
ingness, across cultures, faiths, political
affiliation, and gender, to allow other
in—that is, to suspend all our prejudices
and stereotypes. Such trust requires us
to show our vulnerabilities to people we
might not ordinarily reveal them to, in
order to demonstrate that we have flawed
humanity in common. This means entering
into a place of insecurity and entrusting
our host or guide to lead us and take care
of us. This position of cultural humility is
the foundation of peace work, allowing
practitioners to connect with people on
a basic level that is both informative and
insightful in shaping effective peace prac-
tices and programs..."
Emma Leslie
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2013-09-00
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
Language:
English
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pdf
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Description:
"In January 2012, our Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies facilitate a visit of the
Karen National Union to visit the Moro Islamic Libera
tion Front in Cotobato
City, Mindanao. The KNU had asked about the experience of armed groups in
ceasefires, and there is no better place in the region today than to see how hard
the Philippine government and MILF have worked to sustain a ceasefire while there peace talks go on.
The Chairman of the MILF peace panel, Mohagher Iqbal,
chose carefully his
advice to the KNU. Number one he said: ?Prepare, prepare, prepare. And when
you think you are ready prepare some more.” He explained that as an armed
group you have been well trained to fight in the jungle, but negotiations is a
different arena, and requires training, preparation, knowledge, awareness,
tactics, strategies, skills. He understood that even when you think as the group
demanding your right you are
ready, there will some aspect of the negotiation
you have not
yet
considered.
Secondly, he said: Maintain military discipline. He said military discipline is not
just for fighting wars. He said when you sign a ceasefire agreement you need to
ensure that
your chain of command is in tact. A ceasefire does not mean disarm.
A ceasefire is the ceasing of hostilities so talks can go on.
If
you sign a peace
agreement you need to know that when you tell you troops to disarm they will
put down their guns and
they
will
go home. You can negotiate
confident
you
cannot
deliver on your own promise.
Thirdly he said: You will think negotiating with your opponent is hard, but
negotiating within your own group is even harder. Unifying and bringing your
people along with the negotiation is the most challenging aspect of peace talks.
At times you will feel closer to your negotiating counterpart, then you do to
your own stakeholders..."
Emma Leslie
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2013-10-14
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
Language:
English
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pdf
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84.77 KB
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Description:
"Over the past few decades, the shifting dynamics of
the nature of war, combined with a maturing
field of peace process support, have led to parallel shifts in the nature of mediation in peace
processes. There has been
a significant increase in the number of ongoing civil wars, as opposed to
interstate wars, and the field of conflict transformation has changed accordingly. Under the
leadership of Kofi Annan, the United Nations began
the process of mainstreaming the inclusion of
civil society and other actors into the fields of peacebuilding and conflict resolution. Now, more
actors, using more-advanced support mechanisms, are
engaging in peace-process support. This
maturing of the field has also helped facilitate innovative approaches to overcoming the challenges
of contemporary peace talks in a civil war setting.
This article will reflect on some of the changes in
practice in relation to the peace process currently
underway in the Philippines..."
Emma Leslie
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2013-12-17
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-22
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Dialogue/transition: resources, Conflict resolution - mediation - resources, Peace Education
Language:
English
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pdf
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89.54 KB
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Description:
"Third parties? interventions to support conflict resolution in
South East Asia have been rather rare in the last
decades. Indeed, it has proven difficult for outsiders to play a facilitation or a mediation role in that part of the
world and this for different reasons. Among some possible explanations: the perception
of interference in
internal affairs, the history of a colonial past impacting the present, and the mistrust towards foreigners. In
particular, in comparison to most of the African conflict resolution cases, the interventions in South East Asia
have been mo
stly locally conducted and space for outsiders
is
scarce.
Nevertheless some foreigners have found ways to contribute to support peace in that part of the world and
Emma Leslie
is a stimulating example of this. She is currently involved in three peace processes
across the
region
?
the Moro Islamic Liberation Front/Philippine government; Karen National Union and Myanmar
government; and the All Burma Students Democratic Front and Myanmar government.
The Mediation Support
Project (MSP) round
table discussion
therefore focused
on the Philippines and Myanmar. Emma shared
her
experience on how to deal with those specific mediation/facilitation challenges and draw lessons from those
cases..."
Emma Leslie
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS),
Date of publication:
2013-06-10
Date of entry/update:
2016-02-20
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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Description:
Introduction: "Peace does not come freely. In order to have a sustainable vibrant flourishing
community, it is important
to sustain the efforts of Peacebuilding, which is now profoundly
lacking in most states of the Northeast India1
(NEI) and in many parts of the world affected
and afflicted with intractable conflicts. Looking back to the historical situation we can
understand why these societies are in deep violence or divided societies embroiled in their
search for identity and dignity in the midst of transition from simple societies to modern or
from tyrannical, monarchical or tribalistic system to democratic system of governance; the
journey has never been
smooth or easy.
This paper is an effort to talk about Peace Education advocacy using various methods
such as the Peace Counts on Tour2
(PCoT) and its related component the author has been
involved for over a decade..."
Leban Serto
Source/publisher:
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS)
Date of publication:
2013-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2015-09-29
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Language:
English
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