One theory discussed within the field of peace and conflict studies is conflict resolution mechanisms. Over time, peoples conflict management styles tend to mesh, and a right way to solve conflict emerges. Deutsch 1949, 1985 formulated this theory in order to comprehend the conflict process better and how to come up with more effective conflict resolution methods. A socialpsychological approach to conflict resolution. Concepts and methods of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Peacebuilding, crisis prevention and conflict management. Jan 14, 20 this video is part of a series on major sociological perspectives or theories. This is an excellent introduction to the field of peace and conflict studies. Instead, following most of the social science literature on war, we focus on theories that attempt to explain variations in war and peace over time and space.
The ethics of conflict resolution 1 the ethics of conflict. Are the demands of global justice distinguishable from those of international legitimacy. The orthodoxy of ir has been that peace and conflict studies deals only with specific instances of mediation, conflict resolution, conflict transformation. The course author, professor tom woodhouse, has written this course to provide the student with a fundamental understanding of the field of conflict resolution in both theory. Imperatives for religious leaders in nigeria benson o. One way to manage conflict is to prevent it from occurring in the first place. It provides students with a set of tools for the analysis of contemporary conflicts and shows how evidence and theory can be effectively used to understand peace and conflict. Two central conflict resolution theories are the thomaskilman conflict mode instrument tki and the interest based relational ibr approach. Theories in peace and conflict research demola akinyoade1 phd a paper presented at the international conference of the society for peace studies and practice spsp, defining and rethinking peace and security systems in transitional democracies venue. Johan galtung a mini theory of peace the basic point is that peace is a relation, between two or more parties.
Up to now, traditional approaches to conflict transformation have not been adequately addressed by scholarly research and political practice. It dealt upon conflict resolution and techniques, as to how a conflict could be resolve between the parties involved. The method of research used was comparing and contrasting the theories, definitions, and practices as found in the literature of the fields of theory, peace studies, and conflict resolution with those found in army publications. Theories of peace and conflict and their relationship. An adequate theory of behavior is required to provide a basis for the analysis and resolution of conflict, and particularly for prediction of conflict and a guide to conflict provention. A genealogy of peace and conflict theory springerlink. Nor do we give much attention to the causes of individual wars. The chapters contributed in this book were written as a result of an. The evolution of conflict resolution maxwell school of. History, politics, sociology, economics, science and technology have affected the meaning, nature and study of peace and conflict. The average was two theories of change per project. Peac501 theories of peace and conflict, university of otago. The chapter above discussed and analyzed an understanding of the tlieoretical concept of conflict and peace, its root causes and implication. Reviews classic and contemporary theories of conflict, focusing on five main ways people try to resolve their conflictscoercion.
Deutschs primary thesis is that in order to resolve conflict, it is a key step to understand the nature of interdependence of both parties in conflict. In the early conflict resolution school, peacebuilders were mainly western. Apr 10, 2020 conflict resolution theories are structured around the type of dispute and the approaches to the conflict taken by the parties. Given the reality of global conflict today, conflict theories and social theories enable one to look at the phenomenon with renewed understanding and critical outlook. One approach to negative peace studies opens for peace and conflict studies, seeing violencewar as the smoke signals from the underlying fire of a. These are progressively more complex, but are, still too often, conceptualised.
Postulate five states that peace educators cannot eliminate conflict but they can provide students valuable skills in managing conflict. His dissertation, the functions of social conflict, took conflict theory in a new direction and was later named as one of the bestselling sociology books of the twenti. Innovative andor alternative models of conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Conflict, conflict prevention, conflict management and beyond.
Pdf this book brings together chapters by experts in the field of conflict, peace, security and development, and case studies of research by. There are many examples of conflict resolution in history, and there has been a debate about the ways to conflict resolution. Conflict and critical theories 215 united states and arrived in new york in 1941. View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline. The data may be case studies of peace negotiations or quantitative analyses of mediations or of crises, as discussed in other. Introduction to conflict resolution and peace studies. In essence, interactive problemsolving is an unofficial third party approach to conflict resolution. The module will examine how theoretical understandings of peace and conflict can help us understand the practical manifestations of these issues in contemporary conflicts. Identifying the right thirdparty intervener, whether an attorney, a mediator or an arbitrator, is the most critical part in predicting the success of a conflict resolution process. Innovative and or alternative models of conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
This book brings together chapters by experts in the field of conflict, peace, security and development, and case studies of research by doctoral and masters students involved with development in a practical way. The sustainability and success of a peace process greatly depends on the peace building mechanisms and activities that will follow the signing of a peace agreement. The study is organised around two ways of explaining violent conflict resourcebased and identitybased approaches. The key lines of debate on the causes and resolution of conflict and contemporary peacemaking and peacebuilding practice. Preventing conflict means behaving and communicating in a way that averts needless conflicts. The four contributors to the conflict resolution theme are all outstanding researchers in the field of environmental decisionmaking. Concepts and methods of conflict resolution and peace building. We suggest a set of conditions taken from the theoretical literature that explain change from conflict.
March 25th27th 20 1 peace and conflict studies unit, department of political science and international studies, college of social and management. This insight formed the basis of ongoing research into intergroup relations and conflict resolution through the development of shared goals and social identity. It provides some historical background, and discusses some of the key. This book brings together chapters by experts in the field of conflict, peace, security and development, and case studies of research by doctoral and masters students involved with development in. Marxs class conflict theory is at the heart of marxism, and because it is rooted in timeless truths, found its way to the heart of other conflict theories too. Conflict is, from the latin, to clash or engage in a fight, and occurs when two or more individuals or groups pursue mutually incompatible goals. The facilitative role of the thirdparty, composed of the unofficial representatives of conflicting parties, lies at the core of this approach. The seminar is designed primarily for graduate students who want to understand and hopefully contribute to the theoretical and empirical literature in political science on war, peace, and security. Approaches to conflict resolution, as applied to international environmental disputes, include negotiation, mediation and arbitration.
Practice, in this broad sense, provides much of the data for conflict resolution research and theory building. Though each conflict resolution theory has its own limitations yet conflict resolution as a discipline can be of immense significance in this respect and as we ruminate the current world politics where the powerful does not have qualms about resorting to force at any given opportunity, conflict resolution theories are emblematic of how military. Welcome to the elearning course peacekeeping and international conflict resolution. A recent and completely unsystematic search of one universitys modest library revealed over 420 entries combining the words change and conflict in their title, while a similar search of a data bank of dissertation abstracts produced over 3,500 such citations. However, equality feminist theory in the field of peace and conflict theory provides at least two paths of the. It also focuses on the different methods of conflict resolutions and its application in. Theories of conflict resolution and their applicability. To pursue this goal, core political concepts such as power, order, violence and justice are theorized in distinctive ways. Preventing conflict is not the same as avoiding conflict. What are the different conflict resolution theories. Theory is the fourth cornerstone of the science business. Because coser sees conflict as a normal and functional part of human life, he can talk about its variation in ways that others missed, such as the level of violence and functional consequences. Handbook of peace and conflict studies mahatma gandhi. There is a plethora of different theories and models linked to the concept of conflict resolution.
A conflict resolution process based on these approaches, a starting point for dealing with conflict is to identify the overriding conflict style employed by yourself, your team or your organization. Social conflict theories and conflict resolution kriesberg. Peace building, crisis prevention and conflict management have therefore become a major crosscutting theme in technical cooperation during the last few years. Concepts and methods of conflict resolution and peace. Researches helped to understand conflict resolution, education is the. At the heart of the theories in this chapter is social stratification by class and power, and they are the most politicized of all criminological theories. Postulate four embeds peace education theory and practice within specific cultural norms. Theories of conflict 19 howon jeong is an international peace researcher who pointed out that relative deprivation, dissatisfaction of basic needs, failure of organizational functions, asymmetric power relations and dominant social structures are the important components in the origin of conflict4.
They argued that people typically have a preferred conflict resolution style. Peac501 theories of peace and conflict, university of. Danesh although the concepts of human needs, conflict, and peace are interrelated and affect all aspects of human life, academics and practitioners have usually addressed them in a rather fragmented manner. Nov 08, 20 theories of peace and conflict and their relationship 1. Students will know important theories, approaches and concepts in the area of national and international peace and conflict studies. For equality feminists this meant the right for women to hold any position traditionally restricted to men. The main theories and approaches in the field of peace and conflict research. Pdf theories in peace and conflict research demola v. With the aid of appropriate logical framework of techniques, that is, methodology, scientists use theories to link the philosophical foundations, comprising ontology and epistemology, to. The book not only has valuable research from the field of peace and conflict studies, but clearly explains what the field is, how it differs from program to program, and what is generally covered in the scope of the field. Theories of conflict is based on lectures given when the author was professor of sociology at columbia university 195860, of conflict and peace studies at the.
In the same way as the analysis of violent conflict has to overcome a statecentric perspective, so have the approaches to the control of violence and the nonviolent conduct of conflict. Theories of peace and conflict and their relationship slideshare. Theories of peace a synthetic approach to peace thinking by. Escalation, destructive conflict evaluate cultural assumptions of peace, conflict, race, gender, power, terrorism, war apply practical strategies to reduce destructive conflict. A theoretical analysis introduction in order to have a clear view of the root causes of conflict and its implication, it is important to discuss and analyze the subject in proper context. Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviours as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts including social conflicts, with a view towards understanding those processes which lead to a more desirable human condition. With an overview of the literature on the term conflict transformation, as opposed to conflict resolution, the article considers the semantic nuances and operational differences between these two terms. They can be formal or informal arrangements with the intention of resolving the conflict. In fact, peace and conflict can take different forms, occurring on a number of levels with a wide variety of causes and outcomes. Udezo abstract the need for conflict resolution in our society is crucial. Peacekeeping and international peace operations training.
Peace is not a property of one party alone, but a property of the relation between parties. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Conflict styles in the 1970s kenneth thomas and ralph kilmann identified 5 main styles of dealing with conflict that vary in their degrees of cooperativeness and assertiveness. Theories of peace and conflict and their relationship to language friedrich, 2007 camila araujo, felipe roque, joana dresch, nathalia wichan, norma caldas and vinicius lima 2. The parties may be inside a person, a state or nation, a region or civilization, pulling in different directions. The context of conflict resolution international relations and the study of peace and conflict ricardo real p. Pdf click to increase image size click to decrease image size. Of the 38 theories of change, 15 had an element of capacity building, 10 involved dialogue, seven involved work with the media, and five established peace or conflict resolution. Conflict resolution as a discipline has developed theoretical insights into the nature and sources of conflict and how conflicts can be resolved through peaceful methods to effectuate durable settlements morton deutsch. The enemy system theory was developed in the late 1980s by a. From knowledge to practice and back again, chapter pdf available january 2014 with 9,697 reads how we measure reads. One of the first to develop insight into the beneficial consequences of cooperation as an academic enquiry was morton deutsch. It is imperative because no two people perceive a particular thing exactly in the same way.