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    The ABC Triangle is a framework for analyzing conflicts using three dimensions: Context, Attitudes, and Behavior. [CONTEXT] refers to the incompatible goals or contradictions between parties that are sources of tension, such as differences in social values, scarcity of resources, or desire for change. [ATTITUDES] involve the perceptions and negative emotions that develop between parties, like misperceptions, enemy images, and feelings of anger or hate. [BEHAVIOR] describes the destructive actions taken by parties in a conflict, such as violence, intimidation, or demonstrations. The triangle provides a way to understand the underlying causes of conflicts and intervene to address the Context, Attitudes, and Behaviors that sustain the issues

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    The ABC Triangle is a framework for analyzing conflicts using three dimensions: Context, Attitudes, and Behavior. [CONTEXT] refers to the incompatible goals or contradictions between parties that are sources of tension, such as differences in social values, scarcity of resources, or desire for change. [ATTITUDES] involve the perceptions and negative emotions that develop between parties, like misperceptions, enemy images, and feelings of anger or hate. [BEHAVIOR] describes the destructive actions taken by parties in a conflict, such as violence, intimidation, or demonstrations. The triangle provides a way to understand the underlying causes of conflicts and intervene to address the Context, Attitudes, and Behaviors that sustain the issues

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    ABC Triangle

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    The ABC Triangle is a framework for analyzing conflicts using three dimensions: Context, Attitudes, and Behavior. [CONTEXT] refers to the incompatible goals or contradictions between parties that are sources of tension, such as differences in social values, scarcity of resources, or desire for change. [ATTITUDES] involve the perceptions and negative emotions that develop between parties, like misperceptions, enemy images, and feelings of anger or hate. [BEHAVIOR] describes the destructive actions taken by parties in a conflict, such as violence, intimidation, or demonstrations. The triangle provides a way to understand the underlying causes of conflicts and intervene to address the Context, Attitudes, and Behaviors that sustain the issues

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    *
    *
    *ABC Triangle, or the triangle of conflict, is one of the most
    popular and useful way to investigate and to illustrate the
    complexities of conflict.
    *First developed by Johan Galtung, based on his research on
    the definitions of conflict, the triangle summarizes the
    elements or dimensions of conflict.
    *ABC Triangle provides a useful framework to analyze the
    stakeholders/actors in a conflict situation, by going deeper
    into three important aspects of conflict dynamics: context,
    attitudes, and behavior.
    * C: Context and Contradiction
    *Refers to the incompatibility of goals (needs, interests) between parties to the
    conflict.
    *Possible sources of incompatibility is different from conflict to conflict.
    Examples:
    * Social structure vs. social values (caste system; patriarchy; rich-poor; ethnicity;
    religion)
    * Scarcity (of oil, water, elected offices)
    * Competition (for market share; in election; for power)
    * Migration (rural to urban; north African countries to Europe)
    * Change (social; political; economic; globalization; climate)
    *Sources of incompatibility may overlap, creating more tension and increasing
    the stakes.
    *Questions:
    * What contradiction precedes the conflict you are dealing with?
    * How is the contradiction built into the society?
    * What are the contentious issues emerged from the incompatibility?
    * How development programs build incompatibility into the society?
    *
    *Refers to parties perception and other psychological conditions experienced
    by the parties in a conflict situation. Attitudes include cognitive aspects such
    as misperception, enemy construction, negative stereotypes, and feelings
    such as anger, hate, suspicion,
    *Possible sources of conflict attitudes:
    *Aggressive drives
    *Intra-personel tensions
    *Aggregate frustrations
    *Dehumanization
    *Parties to a conflict develop different feelings, emotions, perceptions (and
    misperception) toward the other.
    *Questions:
    *What negative feelings and emotions developed among parties to the
    conflict you are dealing with?
    *How do these maintained and sustained and through what processes?
    *Do certain programs and policies created negative attitudes among the
    parties or beneficiaries?
    *
    *Refers to the polarizing and sometimes destructive activities
    or actual behavior of the parties in a conflict.
    *Examples: throwing, burning, killing, intimidating, shooting,
    demonstration, war, &c.&c.
    *Questions:
    *What conflict behaviors are used in a conflict situation you are dealing
    with?
    *What strategy and tactics are used?
    *What weapons are used in the conflict?
    *What conflict behaviors emerged due to certain development programs
    and assistance in a community?
    *
    *Conflict can be negative/destructive in its process
    and outcome; it can be positive/constructive. Conflict
    does not equal violence
    *Possible benefits of conflict:
    * It create or foster social change
    * Transform latent conflict into manifest conflict amenable
    for resolution and transformation
    * Focus energy and policy to important problems in the
    society and then to problem-solving
    *The key is whether there is conflict
    management/transformation and if yes whether it is
    good or poor and whether it lead to violence or
    peace
    *
    Deal with
    the
    attitude
    Deal with
    the
    context
    and
    situation
    Deal with
    the
    behavior
    Building a culture of peace
    Creating a peace constituency
    Friendship
    Healing
    Forgiveness
    Acceptance and recognition
    Moderating public discourse
    Democratization
    Elections
    Majority rule
    Minority rights
    Youth
    Economic reform/conversion
    Security sector reform
    Humanitarian pause
    Cessation of hostilities
    DDR
    SALW
    Leadership
    Skills in nonviolence
    Positive social contacts

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