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An exercise oriented toward creating a safe space for proactive dialogue and increased understanding of people’s experiences, fears, and expectations on diversity, race, and gender.

A description of a practice oriented toward cultivating noticing and attentive awareness through the senses.

A diagram representing the circular process of conflict transformation through inquiry around the presenting situation, horizon of the future, and development of change processes.

A chart comparing the perspectives of conflict resolution and conflict transformation on various aspects of conflict analysis.

A matrix mapping questions to hold in the movement from reaction to reform to transformation of crises/issues across scales of intervention from the individual to the systemic.

An exercise to develop a proposal for the construction of health clinics in a country navigating conflict following the signing of a peace accord.

A set of instructions to develop problem posing scenarios intended to support teachers or trainers in developing such exercises for their students.

A short article explaining the value and practice of dilemma posing in peacebuilding.

A guideline of questions to support in conflict analysis with a focus on people, process, and problem, three major aspects of conflict.