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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IdeologyA comprehensive perspective or worldview that provides a general framework for action, interpretation, and conceptualization Ideology is most commonly associated with the general orientation of a group that upholds specific, identifiable ideas. Ideology attempts simultaneously to explain and make sense of the world around us and to advocate actions or policies to be adopted by groups or societies, usually in face of some competing options. | |
Implicit Ethical Messages/Patterns of BehaviorThe behavior of staff members of the organization, and the message it conveys to the local population (beneficiaries/target group/participants and others not directly connected to the assistance) about the values, priorities, and intentions of the assistance and the organization. These can make certain attitudes acceptable or desirable, and through that interact with Dividers and Connectors. | |
Informal EconomyThe exchange of goods and services that is usually neither taxed nor regulated by the government. | |
InsurgencyParamilitary, guerrilla, or non-violent uprisings directed against a nation-state or apparatus from within in order to achieve political objectives. Insurgencies vary in organization, spontaneity, and threat, but all rely on mass participation in some form. | |
InterestsThe underlying reasons or motivations of a person in a conflict. The desires and concerns that lead people to assume a position in a conflict. Parties to a conflict may have common interests as well as separate interests and their separate interests are not necessarily in conflict with the other side. The multiplicity and different importance that parties attribute to their various interests is what makes negotiation possible. | |
InterventionIntervention assumes one of three forms: actions by external nation-states in pursuit of policy objectives or favorable conditions to achieve those objectives (widely understood as the unprovoked interference by one nation-state in the internal affairs of another, coercive and includes an array of examples, such as military force, covert operations, dissemination of propaganda, or cultural domination); actions taken to uphold internationally accepted values or laws (humanitarian intervention); or efforts to alter the dynamics or outcomes of a process under way (third-party intervention, in which the external party attempts to either influence a party (or parties) involved in conflict engagement, conflict management, or conflict resolution or seeks to manipulate any such processes already underway.) | |
IssueThe problem to be resolved. The topic of the negotiation. The matter at stake in a conflict. The difficulty to be addressed. | |