Section 1.1

Youth4Peace Training: 1.1

The United Network of Young Peacebuilders’ (UNOY Peacebuilders) Youth4Peace Training Toolkit brings you through the concepts and practice of delivering trainings and activities on conflict transformation & peacebuilding.

Section 1.1 covers the basics on conflict transformation and peacebuilding:

 

Prepare for your discussion:

Look out for:

• Examples of direct, structural, and cultural violence
• Violence is just one possible way of managing conflict
• Approaches to conflict
• Peace as an “ongoing dynamic process”

 

Consider:

• Is negative peace “negative?” How is negative peace a necessary stage of building peace?
• Think of some examples of structural violence in your local, national, or regional context. What are they?
• What does conflict “transformation” mean to you?