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Monday December 6 2010Lecture 14: Conclusions and Continuations
PS 2A03: Conflict Transformation
Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
Critical IssuesConclusions and Continuations
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Outline
Conflict Transformation
Structural and cultural
violence
Epistemologies ofIgnorance
Respect andrecognition
Identity
Dialogue
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Conflict transformation is... a process of engaging with
and transforming the relationships, interests, discoursesand, if necessary, the very constitution of society thatsupports the continuation of violent conflict.
What is Conflict Transformation?
Hugh Miall (2004)
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[Conflict] transforms events, the relationships in whichconflict occurs, and indeed its very creators. It is a
necessary element in transformative humanconstruction and reconstruction of social organizationand realities.
John Paul Lederach (2003)
Conflict Transforms
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A new language, new concepts and new relationshipsare needed to foster a global culture of peace.
Cultures of Peace
Sue McGregor (2005), on Gail Stewart (2000)
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The first and often overlooked step on any inquiry into
justice is to investigate if the language in which theenquiry proceeds is in itself just: that is, capable ofrendering the speakers their due.
James Tully (1995)
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Violence with a clear-subject-object relation is manifestbecause it is visible in action. It is personal becausethere are persons committing the violence.
Violence without subject-object relations is structural,built into structure.
Johan Galtung (1969)
Structural violence
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Cultural violence means those aspects of culture, the
symbolic fear of our existence that can be used tojustify or legitimise direct or structural violence.
Johan Galtung (1990)
Cultural violence
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http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2005/09/in_new_orleans_.html
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...it is useful to reflect on our epistemologicalassumptions of cultural conventions concerning ways of
knowing may actually influence not only the theorieswe formulate to explain what is, but also ouranticipations or images of what might be.
Francis P. Hutchinson (1996)
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Sustained is dialogue defined as an interactive processdesigned to change conflictual relationships over time.
Harold Saunders (1999)
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Exam
12:30pm Thursday,
December 9 Two different rooms in
Building T29
Short, medium and
long answer questions Open-book
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Those who think they can resolve all contradictions,thereby producing a contradiction-free, surprise-free,society, are in for the greatest surprises.
Johan Galtung (1996)
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Citations & further reading
Simon Fisher, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Richard Smith, Steve Williams andSue Williams (2000) Working With Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action, New York:Zed Books
Johan Galtung (1969) VIolence, peace and peace research,Journal of Peace Research,Vol. 6, No. 3: 167-91.
Johan Galtung (1990) Cultural violence,Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 27, No. 3:291-305.
Johan Galtung (1996) Peace by peaceful means: peace and conflict, development and
civilization, Sage Publications, London.
Donna Haraway (1990) Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World ofModern Science, Routledge.
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Citations & further reading
Francis P. Hutchinson (1996) Educating beyond violent futures, Routledge.
Thomas S Khun (1962) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of ChicagoPress.
John Paul Lederach (1995) Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures,Syracuse university Press: New York.
John Paul Lederach (2003) The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, Good BooksPublishers.
Sue McGregor (2005) Transdisciplinarity and a Culture of Peace, Culture of Peace
Online Journal, 1 (1), 1-12.
Kate McGuinness (1993) 'Gene Sharp's Theory of Power: A Feminist Critique ofConsent',Journal of Peace Research, 30(1): 101-115 Marc Howard Ross (1993) TheCulture of Conflict, New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
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Citations & further reading
Hugh Miall (2004) Conflict Transformation: a multi-dimensional task, Berghoff ResearchCentre for Constructive Conflict Management. PDF available online at http://www.berghof-handbook.net/uploads/download/miall_handbook.pdf
Jay Rothman (1996) Reflexive Dialogue as Transformation, Mediation Quarterly, Vo
13, No 4: 345-352.
Gene Sharp (1973) The Politics of Nonviolent Action: Part One - Power and Struggle ,Boston: Porter Sargent.
Gail Stewart (2000) Rethinking peace, Retrieved August 17, 2010 from http://
www.peace.ca/rethinkingpeace.htm
Tully, J. 1995. Strange multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an age of diversity, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press.
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Image sourcesDave Boldingers Cartoons & Stuff
http://www.dbaldinger.com/opinion_cartoons/second_page/dear_world.html
ames Garvin Ellis. Rodney Powell (standing) talks with other sit-in participants at Walgreens drugstore in Nashville,Tennessee, Friday March 25, 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins
Marc Riboud.Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, Saturday,
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Shaney Komulainen. Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias 'Freddy Kruger'come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kahnesatake reserve in Oka, Quebec, Saturday September 1, 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis
Iceberg from Media for Peacebuilding http://mediaforpeacebuilding.com/peace-media-2/1-peace-conflict-
theory/
Hank Porter (1945) available online: Paul F. Anderson (2010) HAPPY THANKSGIVING From Walt, Mickey,
Minnie, Mortie, Ferdie, & DHI, November 25, Disney History Institute.http://www.disneyhistoryinstitute.com/2010/11/happy-thanksgiving-from-walt-mickey.htmlThe Disney Chick (2010) Meet the New Minnie Mouse. Then Back Away Slowly. July 13, http://
www.thedisneychick.com/2010/07/meet-new-minnie-mouse-then-back-away.html
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