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A diagram of a transformational platform, which includes an understanding of different levels of the conflict, processes for addressing immediate problems, a vision for the future, and a plan for change processes which will move in that direction.

A description of two mutually influential and connect levels of conflict: content and relationship.

Sixteen key lessons about conflict transformation.

A short description of the contribution of peacebuilding frameworks, lenses, skills, and imaginative potential in different contexts.

A summary of key ideas emergent from the seminar "Strategic and Responsive Evaluation of Peacebuilding" shared with the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding in November 2001.

An opening exercise for mediation training that seeks to illuminate cultural understandings around navigating conflict and mediation.

A tool to facilitate the discovery and creation of mediation models that may be implicit in a culture.

Five operating principles underpinning the basic philosophy of the peacebuilding conceptual framework.

An exercise to encourage reflection and practice of deep listening.