Transforming Conflict Toward Durable Peace

This illustration shows how the elements of understanding conflict, violence and peacebuilding fit together.  The yellow and blue triangles represent violence and peacebuilding (both direct and indirect). The points of these two triangles depict the same three dimensions of violent conflict (direct participation as perpetrator, target or witness; systemic cultural exclusion; and systemic social-structural inequity) and of nonviolent conflict transformation for peacebuilding: participation in peacemaking (directly and through democratic representation); cultural inclusion through positive recognition, trust-building and welcoming of differences among people; and social-structural equity through just redistribution of resource access).  Comprehensive peacebuilding is systemic transformation to redress the roots of conflicts and to rebuild just and trusting relationships, alongside processes for peacemaking dialogue for decision-making, to mutually resolve and repair the inevitable problems of life.