Occasional Paper Number 4. Summary by Mariya Yevsyukova. Copyright 1997 by the Conflict Research Consortium Introduction Peace is not a static phenomenon. To discover peace, a system encouraging conflict should be transformed.
Conflict transformation is different from conflict resolution and management.
It involves changing parties' beliefs and behaviors, releasing the energy limited by determined patterns of thought and action, to move toward creating new relationships. This paper presents a map of the journey of discovering peace and hence, transforming conflict. It consists of five parts outlined below. Peace is an ideal. Those moments motivate us to search for peace.