PEACEST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Conflict Transformation, Structural Violence
30 Jan 2017
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Galtung figure 1. 1 (conflict, violence & peace triangles) Says we need to address structural violence and cultural violence along with the direct violence in order to transform the conflict. Conflict is a process that begins and ends: escalation and de-escalation. Conflicts are complex and multi-level: spheres of cosmopolitan conflict resolution. Key assumptions (1) conflicts escalate and deescalate conflicts are a process (2) conflicts are complex and multilevel (p. 33) In order to solve conflict, we must grasp the complexity of the conflict key assumption of chapter 3. A radical transformation- two views about conflict (p. 113-4) Traditional conflicts model (wwi: external war, simple conflict, established armies, more deadly and cruel heavy weapons (tanks, soldiers, conflict over territory, resources, democracy, colonialism, patriotism main source, payed by taxation/state. Contemporary conflict model (isis, syria: new, third-kind, multilevel, very complicated conflicts, identity, politics, religion, mafia, powers, children army, strategy of fear, media, corruption, terrorism, atrocity, rape, payed by parallel economy, mafia, drug-trafficking.
