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Introduction: Peace researcher Carolyn Stephenson explains how one needs to look at many factors in a conflict to figure out how best to intervene.


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Using Different Identities as Conflict Resolution Tools
Carolyn Stephenson
Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i
Interviewed by
Julian Portilla
2003

...It's looking at the different levels of personal, neighborhood, group, national identity, ethnic identity, and how those all fit together. It's trying to be able to use those to develop some sort of a group community project, and often the teaching process can be useful, because it's a very non-threatening way. That in fact can be a vehicle for bringing people together to talk about all kinds of other things.

Using environment, using women's empowerment as a conflict resolution vehicle is a classic technique that dozens of people have tried in dozens of conflicts. Knowing how those things fit together across the different sectors and across the different levels is important.

 
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. -- Albert Einstein

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