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Many of the deep-rooted human conflicts that seize our attention today are not ready for formal mediation and negotiation. People do not negotiate about identity, fear, historic grievance, and injustice. Sustained dialogue provides a space where citizens outside government can change their conflictual relationships. Governments can negotiate binding agreements and enforce and implement them, but only citizens can change human relationships. Governments have long had their tools of diplomacy - mediation, negotiation, force, and allocation of resources. Harold H. Saunders' A Public Peace Process provides citizens outside government with their own instrument for transforming conflict. Saunders outlines a systematic approach for citizens to use in reducing racial, ethnic, and other deep-rooted tensions in their countries, communities, and organizations.

THE CONCEPT OF POLITICAL SETTLEMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRISIS THAT BEGAN WHEN IRAQ INVADED KUWAIT ON 2 AUGUST 1990 IS EXAMINED IN THIS POLICY ESSAY. ITS PURPOSE IS TO REFLECT ON THE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVES TO WAR AND ON THE FOUNDATIONS FOR BUILDING PEACEFUL RELATIONSHIPS IN OUR CHANGING WORLD. IT SUGGESTS THAT WE NEED TO GIVE AT LEAST AS MUCH ATTENTION TO DEVELOPING AND HONING POLITICAL INSTURMENTS FOR BLOCKING OR TURNING BACK AGGRESSION AS WE DO TO MILITARY PLANNING.

Two challenges are posed for social scientists, one substantive & the other disciplinary. First, scholars & practitioners should together find ways to transform fragmented & conflictual relationships into relationships capable of building peaceful societies where human dignity is respected. Second, to achieve this goal, they should work to develop nondisciplinary spaces where people from different disciplines can come together to create the requisite conceptual & methodological frameworks. 7 References. Adapted from the source document.