Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Terminology

Concessions, incentives, and threats issued by parties engaged in a process of negotiation.

Is not a straightforward exercise of mutual exchanges, such exchanges may occur over a single concern or multiple issues, but the parties often tend to offer initially what they view as less valuable in order to obtain what they consider to be more valuable, an approach known as Homans’ Theorem.

A campaign of withdrawal of support from a company, government, or institution which is committing an injustice, such as racial discrimination. As Dr. King said, “There is nothing quite as effective as the refusal to cooperate with the forces and institutions which perpetuate evil in our communities.”