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Conflict Resolution Roles

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The literature from this course taught us about the vast number of different actors and the roles they have in conflict resolution. One major model that we learned about which explained the actors in conflict resolution and peace building was the ‘The Multi-Track System’ by McDonald & Diamond. This system classifies different social groups into different tracks whereby diplomacy is practiced. There are nine different tracks in total. The nine tracks have different actors who have roles in conflict resolution. The first track in the multi-track system is governmental diplomacy. This is official diplomacy. This is when world leaders or head of states meet each other to keep peace or find a resolution for the ongoing conflict. An example of this …show more content…

Actors in track six consist of activist and is called activism. Activist focus a lot on peace building and look at such issues as human rights and economic justice. An example of an activist group is the Alliance for Peace Building. They fight against such things as terrorism and try to work on locally led peace building (Alliance for Peace Building 2017). The seventh track consist of religious facilitators. They are actors in conflict resolution by trying to build peace through spiritual and morality based movements. They want to try and encourage people to use non-violent ways of conflict. The eight track in this system consist …show more content…

As I have learned all the different actors are not involved in every conflict resolution talk all of the time but when they are involved they all have different and important roles to play in it. The Multi Track System was a brilliant way to learn about different actors in peacebuilding and conflict resolution talks. It explained quite clearly the different actors involved, in nine different tracks or levels. It helped me form my opinion on who are the most important actors when it comes to conflict resolution. Studying conflict resolution has made me more aware of how difficult it can be when dealing with parties in conflict and how difficult it is to provide an outcome where each party gets what it wants, especially if there is a party who is not willing to negotiate very much or at all. They can also be known as spoilers and in my opinion are the biggest challenge for any mediator in conflict resolution

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