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CONFLICT
TRANSFORMATION
BY PEACEFUL
MEANS

By
Johan Galtung, dr hc mult
Professor of Peace Studies:
Director: TRANSCEND: A Peace and Development Network

Published by
United Nations Disaster Management Training Programme
Emergency Response Division - Geneva Operations
Geneva
 
 
 
 
 

TCW
TRANSCEND CONFLICTS WORKSHOPS - SEMINARS
Introducing the TRANSCEND method  -  chosen by the UN
Trainer and teacher: Tore Lende
Working language: English or Norwegian
Workshops: 1 day, 2 days or 1 week

Manual - the mini-version -  A 20 page version of  Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means,
Available in  English, Norwegian and some other languages
You will find a summary of the appraoch here.

Understanding of conflicts, their nature and possible developments including their outcome, and ways and means for arriving at peaceful solutions are helpful or imperative for:
 

  • Conflict- and Peaceworkers of any category
  • Workers in Humantarian Organisations
  • Police
  • Diplomats
  • Political Organisations and Politicians
  • Business executives and workers in foreign cultures - international companies* (see comments here)
  • Refugees in camps or refugee centers - immigrants. (Look here for some special comments for this group - Norwegian)
  • Immigrant groups
  • Leaders in all kinds of organisations, including pastors and other religious leaders
  • Military personel
  • Teachers and students
The teaching of the workshop will seek to adapt the presentation to fit each group and its particular needs.
The TRANSCEND approach introduce empathy, nonviolence, creativity into conflict practice: understand conflict partner from the inside, feeling their logic, identitying valid goals and nonviolent approaches to attain them, eliciting from all parties joint creativity to find ways of transcencing the imcompatibilities. The very word TRANSCEND is meant to indicate "go beyond" -to find the creative solutions that the parties could not think of it their locked positions.

The TRANSCEND approach aim at:
 

  • Increasing the creativity, motivation and faith of the conflicts to see possibilities - and an ability to install hope
  • Increasing the creativity, motivation and faith of the parties to arrive at peaceful solutions
  • Increasing understanding of violence: Direct violence, psychological or mental violence, structural or systemic violence
  • Increasing a general vision for a non-violent society - a peace culture.


POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS - "ADDED VALUE"

  • Possibly better ability to handle your own internal problems. With other words: You might profit mentally.
  • Better relationships.
  • More self-confidence. Ability to handle changing situations in life.
Please, contact Transcend, Tore Lende,  for further discussion about the method, workshops etc.
Tore Lende
Sandnes, Norway

Telephone +47 51 66 78 11
Fax: +47 51 67 14 21 (+47 51 62 50 59)

Mail adress: lende@lende.no
Web page: www.lende.no
Transcend: www.transcend.org
Peaceaboat     There are a number of ways you can take part in Peace Boat, both on board and on land. Transcend teaches on board.


The trainer/instructor - Tore Lende.
(There are also other instructors in Norway and other countries, I will be happy to bring you in contact with them)
Interview in The Stavanger Aftenblad  (Norwegian)
20 years of management after business training. At the age of 50 life took a new turning  with studies in psychology and relationsship-oriented subjects: Among others  Dr. William Glassers Choice Theory and Reality Therapy  and  studies at The Social Pedagogical School of Higher Education, .
Published papers:
Relationsships and Mental Health  (in Norwegian)
A Right to Live - (in Norwegian)  - on structural violence
Homo Ludens - on Motivation  (in Norwegian)
The Psychology of Peace - not yet published on the web (English)
Workshops and seminars in related topics in Norway and other countries. Report from Pskov, Russia. I have worked as an assistant to professor Johan Galtung in several workshops over the last 3 years since 1998.   I also work closely with Dr. Olga Vorkunova, Moscow: Forum  Center for Development and Peace Studies. Our plans in the next years are to increase our relationships with the former Soviet-Union countries.

FOR BUSINESS EXECUTIVES AND EMPLOYEES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
ADDED COMMENTS TO THE MAIN PRESENTATION ABOVE
COMMENTS TO
TCW-
TRANSCEND CONFLICTS WORKSHOPS - SEMINARS
for business executives and workers in foreign cultures - international companies

Executives and workers in foreign countries will encounter different kind of problems:

  • Workers will be confronted with internal problems in the country, or between countries in the area
  • Conflicts between the company, its employees,  and the inhabitatants of the country
  • Conflicts within the employees of the company
  • Conflicts with other companies
  • In what way will your company benefit from TRANSEND conflict workshops?
  • A general understanding of conflicts and difficulties among people
  • A general respects for conflicts and their complexity
  • A vocabular in order to understand, discuss and analyse a conflict
  • A healty fear and respect to avoid arragance and simple solutions - avoiding presumptious behavior
  • Tools for analysis of conflicts
  • Increasing the employees abilities to avoid internal and external conflicts
  • Consequently increasing productivity and profitability
  • Increased possibilites to prevent and solve costly and disastrous conflicts


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