Abstract
The idea of “transformation” implies that facilitators bring an agenda to situations of conflict. What is that agenda and how is it promoted? I believe the aim should be to use conflict as a moment, or more precisely, a series of moments of rich opportunity to contribute to human development. Facilitators, a term I use to refer to peacemakers working in group and inter-group settings, meet this agenda with responses that fall into two broad categories:
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by assisting empowerment, that is, supporting the persons involved in conflict to more fully achieve their own potential as human beings; and
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by fostering “right relationships”, that is, relationships characterized by recognition of the other, fairness, respect, mutuality and accountability.
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Kraybill, R. (2004). Facilitation Skills for Interpersonal Transformation. In: Austin, A., Fischer, M., Ropers, N. (eds) Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05642-3_11
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