Conflict Transformation in Protracted Internal Conflicts

This chapter outlines a comprehensive framework for conflict transformation in protracted, internal conflicts. The framework identifies and explores the significance of three key elements in sustaining transformation. The first is the integration of short and long perspectives in developing a peace process, the second explores the need for establishing an infrastructure across the various of the population affected by the conflict, and the third advocates for promoting and supporting a peace constituency, an approach that also involves recognizing and building from cultural resources present in the setting. A comprehensive approach, it is argued, is concerned not just with achieving events in a process, but with the broader issue of how a process for transformation is sustained.