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"Kevin Clements deals in greater detail with the challenges of linking theory, research and practice, and offers strategies to implement these approaches in all relevant areas of social change. The chapter illustrates some lessons learned from interventions in Africa, the Caucasus and Asia. The author argues that the structural sources of conflict - political and economic in particular - have been relatively underdeveloped in conflict analysis and in the design of intervention processes. This has meant that many track II interventions in conflict have been oriented towards attitudinal and behavioural change rather than situational or structural change. Until this situation is reversed and more attention is paid to the transformation of institutions and processes, it will be difficult to generate stable peaceful relationships." (author's abstract)

The world clearly needs some new ways of thinking about old problems and new ways of acting if we are going to survive into the 21st century. It is vital, therefore, that students of peace and conflict work out ways of harnessing the creative imagination of everyone so that all peoples can envisage a positive future and ways of realizing that future. This imagining cannot be narrow. It has to be broad, inclusive, interdisciplinary and systemic but it has to begin if we are to have a viable future.