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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
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...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.
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