{"id":273629,"date":"2024-09-16T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=273629"},"modified":"2024-09-16T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T05:42:13","slug":"armed-conflict-transformation-our-strengths-and-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/09\/armed-conflict-transformation-our-strengths-and-weaknesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Conflict Transformation: Our Strengths and Weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Galtung\/TRANSCEND Conflict Diagram
TRANSCEND Method<\/p><\/div>\n

12 Sep 2024 <\/em>– The United Nations system is preparing for the U.N. Summit of the Future to be held in New York on 4 days, 21-24 September.\u00a0 There is to be presented a “Pact for the Future” drawn up by government representatives under the chairmanship of the representatives of Germany and Namibia.\u00a0 There is also to be presented a “People’s Pact for the Future” drawn up by persons from a wide range of non-governmental organizations (NGOs).<\/p>\n

These preparations have led to many proposals for reform of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods institutions (World Bank and the IMF) and for the creation of new institutions in order to mitigate the threats we face.\u00a0 In the light of the current geopolitical deadlocks such as the armed conflicts Russia-Ukraine, Israelis-Palestinians – one cannot expect many specific agreements, but ideas are being usefully discussed.<\/p>\n

Thus, it might be useful to look at our TRANSCEND efforts at armed conflict transformation, our strengths and weaknesses and roads for future activities.\u00a0 It think that it is worth looking at three aspects: training, analysis, action.<\/p>\n

Much of the TRANSCEND approach grew out of the peace research institutions which began in the 1950s and developed in the 1960-1970s with the creation of a large number of peace research programs usually within universities.\u00a0 The International Peace Research Association (IPRA) was created to be a link among those teaching.\u00a0 As I am no longer directly related to a teaching institution, I have not followed the efforts of IPRA and so must leave the evaluation to others who are directly in contact.<\/p>\n

Analysis of current situations and proposals for peaceful transformations makes up the bulk of TRANSCEND Media Service<\/em> work.\u00a0 We need to look at the extent that other media republish our articles.\u00a0 I have seen few in the peace media I receive, but I do not have an overview.<\/p>\n

Action, of course, is crucial.\u00a0 There are some, but too few, non-governmental efforts at mediation of on-going conflicts and tension reduction in areas where armed conflict is possible such as between the two Korean states.\u00a0 It is important that a TRANSCEND orientation be present in such discussions.\u00a0 We will have to see how such participation can be increased.<\/p>\n

It will be useful to have the views of our active colleagues.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He <\/em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em>, and <\/em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United Nations system is preparing for the U.N. Summit of the Future to be held in New York on 21-24 Sep 2024.\u00a0It is important that a TRANSCEND orientation be present in such discussions.\u00a0 We will have to see how such participation can be increased. It will be useful to have the views of our active colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[442,497,3082,92],"class_list":["post-273629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-conflict-transformation","tag-transcend-method","tag-un-summit-of-the-future","tag-violent-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273630,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273629\/revisions\/273630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}