INTSTDS 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conflict Resolution, Conflict Management, Peacebuilding
11 Sep 2015
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Peace- the absence of conflict and presence of conditions for social and economic development. It is a multilevel concept with the result of elimination of the basis for conflict, not just the elimination of the manifestation of that conflict. From a psychological perspective, peace is defined by the condition that is met, once the reason a conflict exists is eliminated. In order to obtain peace, one must fix certain conditions that have not been met, which is the primary reason a conflict exists to begin with. Johan galtung-one of the founding fathers of peace studies who was interested in ending conflict in all dimensions. He believes the solutions for peace are individual. He developed the peace building triangle, wherein he suggests conflict can be viewed as a triangle with contradiction, attitude, and behavior as its vertices. He compared conflict to that of a disease by using a medical metaphor: you can cure the disease if you cure the symptoms.
