Conflict Prevention
Objectives:
- To nurture the culture of peace
- To encourage a culture of dialogue and debate among individuals and groups
- To promote non-violence modes of conflict resolution
Content:
- Sources of conflict:
- Religious
- Economic
- Political
- Social (e.g. ethnic, etc)
- Prevention of conflict
- National dialogue
- Compromise
- Management of conflict
- Negotiation
- Mediation
- Reconciliation
- Traditional ways & methods of reconciliation
Knowledge:
- Understanding the potential sources of conflict
- Understanding the need for mutual respect of all persons
- Understanding the sensitivity of relationship between parties
- Understanding the procedures of managing conflict
- Roles of formal and non-formal institution of conflict management
Skills:
- Ability to recognise emerging conflicts
- Ability to recognise and avoid emerging conflicts
- Negotiation and discussion skills
- Ability to effectively manage conflict
Values:
- Tolerance
- Peaceful co-existence
- Spirit of give and take
- Sensitive to others
- Compromise
- Forgiveness
- Reconciliation
