Explain The Following Concepts, Peace Keeping, Pea

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Question: Explain the following concepts, peace keeping, peace building and peacemaking, linking them at the micro and macro levels? Introduction “I believe that the nature and characteristics of contemporary conflict suggest the need for a set of concepts and approaches that go beyond traditional statist diplomacy. Building peace in today’s conflicts calls for long-term commitment to establishing an infrastructure across the levels of society, an infrastructure that empowers the resources for reconciliation from within that society and maximizes the contribution from outside”, (Laderach, 1997:16). Peacekeeping is easily a holding action, a temporary measure aimed at defusing tensions and reducing the incentives for parties to pursue violent conflict. Peacemaking covers all conflict resolution and mediation techniques designed to bring hostile parties to agreement. Peace-enforcement involves measures to compel a recalcitrant party to abide by the resolution of an international body. Peace building finally relates to meeting needs for security and order, for a reasonable standard of living, and for recognition of identity and worth. This discourse seeks to interrogate these concepts and their applicability to the micro and macro levels while answering the question whether there is a nexus or not? Peace Building as a concept and its applicability at micro and macro levels Building peace relates to meeting needs for security and order, for a reasonable standard of living, and for recognition of identity and worth. This focus on satisfying human needs is derived from the conflict resolution theories of John Burton. According to (Spence, 1974:44), “the process of peace building calls for new attitudes and practices, ones that are flexible, consultative and collaborative and that operate from a contextual understanding of the root causes of conflict”. The approach
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