This clearly articulated statement offers a hopeful and workable approach to conflict--that eternally beleaguering
human situation.
John Paul Lederach is internationally recognized for his breakthrough thinking and action related to conflict on
all levels--person-to-person, factions within communities, warring nations.
He explores why "conflict transformation is more appropriate than "conflict resolution" or "management."
But he refuses to be drawn into impractical idealism.
Conflict Transformation is an idea with a deep reach. Its practice, says Lederach, requires "both solutions
and social change." It asks not simply "How do we end something not desired?", but "How do
we end something destructive and build something desired?" How do we deal with the immediate crisis, as well
as the long-term situation? What disciplines make such thinking and practices possible?
Table of Contents
1. Conflict Transformation?
2. The Lenses of Conflict Transformation
3. Defining Conflict Transformation
4. Conflict and Change
5. Connecting Resolution and Transformation
6. Creating a Map of Conflict
7. Process-Structures as Platforms for Change
8. Developing Our Capacities
9. Applying the Framework
10.Conclusions
11. Endnotes
12. Selected Readings
13. Related Books by John Paul Lederach
14. About the Author
