Conflict and Peace Unit Two: Understanding Peace

A Peace and Conflict Studies Course for Myanmar

Conflicts are all around us. It is challenging to transform those conflicts into peace. Conflict and Peace will help you gain a deeper understanding about the reasons why conflicts exist, and the methods for transforming conflicts into sustainable and just peace. You will examine the impacts of conflict, violence, and peace on yourself, your relationships, and your communities. You will increase your understanding of empathy, tolerance, nonviolence and pluralism, and develop critical and creative thinking skills.

You will gain skills in the following areas:

  • communication;
  • management and awareness of emotions in situations of conflict;
  • de-escalation of interpersonal conflicts;
  • conflict analysis;
  • nonviolent conflict transformation;
  • reconciliation of personal relationships;
  • initiating peaceful social change;
  • developing a peace project.

Publication year

2019

Editor

KURVE Wustrow

Media format

Manual