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- Title
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS TO CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND PEACE BUILDING IN DIVIDED SOCIETIES.
- Authors
POPOVSKA, Biljana
- Abstract
Reconciliation is a long-term process of resolving the antagonisms in culture and identity-based conflicts. It involves a transition from contesting to cooperation, including reconstruction of the society and creating conditions for normal cooperation and life. Some authors call it "transformation" (Lederach), or peacemaking (Curle). They define conflict transformation as a solution, which involves transformation of enmity relations into mutual acceptance and cooperation between the actors of the conflict. The conflict could lay dormant and activate from time to time unless reconciliation is achieved among the conflicting sides. Thus, instead, a sustainable peace the society is polarized and divided societies conducive to occasional or continuous escalation of new conflicts are formed. Peacebuilding links together different threads from conflict prevention, crisis management, peacemaking, and post conflict stabilization often challenged with efficiency, coordination and sustainability which impose the need for good knowledge of the current peacebuilding architecture. This paper is a small contribution in that line and an effort to give an overview of the different concepts of conflict resolution and peace building.
- Subjects
CONFLICT management; RECONCILIATION; CRISIS management; PROBLEM solving; SOCIAL conflict
- Publication
Contemporary Macedonian Defense / Sovremena Makedonska Odbrana, 2013, Vol 13, Issue 24, p123
- ISSN
1409-8199
- Publication type
Article