Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Terminology
This glossary of peacebuilding and conflict transformation terminology was compiled primarily from the following sources:
- University of Peace (Glossary of terms and concepts for peace and conflict studies)
- Glossary of Peacebuilding Terms from Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual, 2002, pp, 14 – 15, Caritas Internationalis, Vatican City.
- Beyond Intractability
- Fisher, S. et Al (200) Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action, Zed Books, London.
- A Glossary of Terms for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. United State Institute of Peace.
- Glossary of Key Peace and Conflict Terminology. MPI Fundamentals of Peacebuilding course handouts.
- Oxford Dictionary
- One You
- American Psychological Association
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Active listeningTo listen with the intention of understanding what was communicated. | |
Actual ImpactThe impact of the assistance (your project) on the conflict in the context. Not to be confused with the intended impact of the assistance (e.g. nutrition, literacy, etc.). Actual impact is generated through the interactions between the Dividers and Connectors present in the context and key details of the assistance (Resource Transfers/Patterns of Action and Implicit Ethical Messages/Patterns of Behavior). | |
Adjudication | |
AgencyThe ability to act and affect change and the subsequent occurrence of an act by a person or group. Fundamental to the concept is the conviction that individuals can directly influence their environment and act as agents of social and political change. | |
AggressionAn unprovoked, offensive act of hostility, attack, or violence on the individual, communal, regional, or governmental level. The United Nations defines aggression as the ‘use of armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity or political independence of another state, or in any manner inconsistent with the Charter of the United Nations.’ | |
AgreementA negotiated and usually legally enforceable understanding between two or more legally competent parties. Although a binding contract can (and often does) result from an agreement, an agreement typically documents the terms of a negotiated settlement. | |
AhimsaThe Hindi word for non-injury, or nonviolence made popular by Gandhi as the central value of his beliefs and leadership. | |
AllianceA coalition of individuals, groups, or nation-states based on formal or informal agreement, open or secret, formed to assist one another to secure identified objectives according to specified and mutually accepted criteria. Usually involve a broader range of co-operative endeavors, including purposes of development, humanitarian aid, and conflict resolution. | |
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)A wide range of procedures and approaches other than litigation (court/legal procedures) that aim to identify resolutions to conflicts mutually accepted by the different parties. | ||