Conflictología ; Conflictology
Conflictologia o Resolución de Conflictos, es la ciencia del conflicto, contiene los conceptos de crisis, cambio, violencia o problema. El término fue acuñado por Galtung y actualmente está internacionamente aceptado por la Academia, las sociedades científicas, universidades, Naciones Unidas y las ONG de Paz y conflictos. Teóricos e investigadores como J. Burton, M. Deustch, K. & E. Boulding, Hobbes, Lederach, Rapoport, Sandole y Marlow entre muchos otros han fundamentado los principios pluridisciplinarios. Miles de libros, centenares de programas universitarios especializados, doctorados y institutos de investigación en ámbitos como la Antropologia, Historia, Sociología, Psicología Filosofía, incluso en Matemática, Biología y Medicina nos muestra un panorama científico único. El interés destacado de la Humanidad por contener, solucionar o canalizar los conflictos ha llevado a un proceso de convergencia de denominaciones y prácticas en Irenología, Polemología, Transformación de Conflictos, Gestión de Conflictos, Estudios de la paz, Cultura de paz, que encuentren en la Conflictología o Resolución de Conflictos el nexo de colaboración necesario para unir en un esfuerzo de análisis que nos permita comprender las causas de los conflictos y la manera práctica de sustituir los métodos violentos y contradictorios de resolverlos. ; Conflictology is the science of conflict, including concepts such as crisis, change, problems and violence The term was used by J. Galtung and is internationally accepted in Academia, Scientific Societies, universities, the United Nations and at major NGOs as a synonym for conflict resolution. Conflict researchers and theorists such as J. Burton, M. Deustch, K. & E. Boulding, Hobbes, Lederach, Rapoport, Sandole and Marlow, among many others, have contributed to laying the foundations of a body of theory and pragmatic considerations on how to address all types of conflicts. Thousands of books, hundreds of training programmes and dozens of research centres around the world bear witness to a plurality of approaches drawing on philosophy, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, and even mathematics, medicine and neuroscience in their studies of the biological bases for human emotions, stress and individual and collective human behaviour. Although humanity's interest in understanding and containing or channelling its conflicts is as old as humanity itself, it was only in recent decades that a process was undertaken to gather all such efforts under a single umbrella: conflictology or conflict resolution. In recent decades, peace studies, conflict transformation, conflict management, irenology, polemology, mediation and negotiation have converged in their interest to identify the multiple key factors that cause and give rise to conflicts and violence, as a system to be able to understand them fully and, thus, be able to intervene in a positive, practical and effective way. The aim is to overcome the limitations and contradictions of violent methods for solving conflicts.
