"My experience in real life situations suggests the single most difficult task is to maintain a long term view that intentionally and adequately integrates and coordinates action between the variety of resources that have bearing on the situation."
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.
Lederach, John Paul. “Conflict Transformation in Protracted Internal Conflicts: The Case for a Comprehensive Framework.” In Conflict Transformation, edited by Kumar Rupesinghe. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
The English version of this text is shared with the permission of the MCC Library and the library collections of MCC Canada and MCC U.S.
The Spanish translation was published by Red Gernika and is shared with the permission of Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre.
An abridged version of the book, The Little Book of Conflict Transformation.
An article describing the emergence and transformative impact of a community mediation program in Nepal.
A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.