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Glossary

The glossary contains concepts that are pertinent to the focal areas of the War Prevention Initiative. Some were taken over directly from the wonderful work done by the Conflict Research Consortium at the University of Colorado; those are the most commonly used conceptualizations in the field of conflict resolution; others were compiled through a variety of classical and contemporary print sources in the realm conflict resolution (e.g. Contemporary Conflict Resolution by Ramsbotham, Woodhouse and Miall, 2011)

  • Activism
  • Advocacy
  • Arms race
  • BATNA
  • Citizen diplomacy
  • Co-existence
  • Compromise
  • Conflict Management
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Conflict Transformation
  • Consensus
  • Constructive Conflict
  • De-escalation
  • Dehumanization
  • Destructive conflict
  • Dialog
  • Escalation
  • Extremists
  • Face Saving
  • Facilitation
  • Global Peace System
  • Human needs
  • Identity conflicts
  • Intractable Conflicts
  • Mediation
  • Militarism
  • Military-industrial-complex
  • Multi-Track Diplomacy
  • Negative peace
  • Negotiation
  • Non-governmental Organizations
  • Nonviolence
  • Nonviolent peace activists
  • Nonviolent resistance
  • Parties
  • Peace
  • Peace Science
  • Peacebuilding
  • Peacekeeping
  • Peacemaking
  • Positive Peace
  • Power
  • Reconciliation
  • Social context
  • Social movements
  • Stable peace
  • Stereotyping
  • Structural violence
  • Third Party
  • Triggering Events
  • War
  • World Peace
  • Worldview
  • Zero-sum
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