{"id":286391,"date":"2025-01-27T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=286391"},"modified":"2025-01-25T04:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T04:50:22","slug":"functional-coexistence-in-socio-political-conflict-enabling-social-change-across-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/functional-coexistence-in-socio-political-conflict-enabling-social-change-across-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional Coexistence in Socio-political Conflict: Enabling Social Change across Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Launch, Webinar Announcement
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25 Jan 2025 –<\/em> Peace and conflict researchers, as well as intervention practitioners, have long focused on preventing, resolving, and recovering from destructive social conflict. However, little attention has been given to strategies for remaining constructively engaged in unresolved conflicts where resolution efforts have not yielded results. The recently released open-access book<\/a> Functional Coexistence in Socio-political Conflict: Enabling Social Change across Decades<\/em> (Routledge), edited by Tatsushi Arai and Margarita Tadevosyan, addresses this issue, broadening the scope of peacemaking practices within the context of enduring conflicts.<\/p>\n

Functional coexistence refers to a pragmatic relationship of mutual non-recognition, sustained in the absence of physical violence. As contributors to the first book on this topic, a team of leading peacebuilding scholar-practitioners discuss the rationale and implications of functional coexistence, including case studies and its potential for practical conflict intervention. By bridging theory with evidence and vision with practice, the authors provide guideposts for sustained conflict intervention, offer examples of peace potential within the context of functional coexistence, and identify common pathways to change.<\/p>\n

Rather than losing hope based on traditional expectations of conflict resolution and reconciliation, this pioneering study of conflict non-resolution<\/em> demonstrates the power of tenacious pragmatism, strategically informed by a decades-long historical perspective on change.<\/p>\n

The following book launch events will introduce the concept of functional coexistence and explore its implications for peacemaking practice.<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL WEBINAR<\/em><\/p>\n

JANUARY 31 (FRIDAY), 9:00-10:15 AM Eastern Standard Time<\/p>\n

Co-sponsored by: The International Studies Association’s Peace Studies Section<\/em>,\u00a0School of Peace and Conflict Studies (SPCS), Kent State University,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University<\/em><\/p>\n

Link to session details and registration.<\/a><\/p>\n

MODERATOR:\u00a0Margarita Tadevosyan (George Mason University)<\/p>\n

PANELISTS:<\/p>\n