Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Terminology

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Sanctions

Penalties threatened or imposed by a government, institution, organization, or group on a targeted party for actual or anticipated failure to act in accordance with standards, obligations, or expectations.

Actions typically taken by countries to influence the behavior of other parties.

Satyagraha

Hindi word that describes the principles of Truth and Love as the forces of power and change. Also mean ‘firmness in Truth’, or a ‘relentless search for Truth’,

A Gandhian conception to denote active non-violent resistance to injustice, oppression, and exploitation.

Saving Face

Offering an adversary an alternative course of action which spares him or her embarrassment.

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Security

Traditionally, security has meant freedom from military attack and has been synonymous with national security. In addition, a state could enter into alliances that provided collective security.

Security Forces

Include a limited number of groups that hold the responsibility to protect public order and security, and the power to arrest, detain, search, seize and use force and firearms.

Security Sector

According to the United Nations, is “a broad term used to describe the structures, institutions and personnel responsible for the management, provision and oversight of security in a country.”

It usually include the state’s armed forces (military, police, intelligence services); justice and rule of law institutions; state oversight and management bodies such as national security advisory bodies, parliament; as well as non-state armed groups who in some cases, play certain roles in protecting some population groups.

Selective Patronage

The flip side/reverse of a boycott. Making a point of purchasing a product or service from a company that supports justice.

Sexual Violence

A form of gender-based violence.

Sexual violence refers to any act, attempt, or threat of a sexual nature that results, or is likely to result in, physical or psychological harm.

Sit-In

Tactic of nonviolence in which protesters sit down at the site of an injustice and refuse to move for a specified period of time or until goals are achieved.

Social Contract

The notion/idea that individuals and nation-states tacitly agree to a set of mutually binding stipulations and obligations.

Whereby individuals willingly submit some of their personal freedoms to political authority in return for the general benefit of all members of a given society.

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