Conflict is a reality whereas peace is an ideal construct

More effective than trying to build and idealized state of peace is to learn how to cope with the reality of conflict

Positive relations associated with peace?

Cooperation, freedom from fear, freedom from want, economic growth and development, absence of exploitation, equality, justice, freedom of action, pluralism and dynamism  

Definition by Galtung

PEACE: "...negative peace is conflict transformation, so that violence stops, full stop. Positive peace is cooperation for mutual and equal benefit, and the word equal is very important: when in harmony, I feel what you feel and you feel what I feel, because we are somehow coupled together. Obviously this is very different from negative peace which is essentially the absence of violence."

Conflict=Contradiction

Peace=no violence+creativity

Peace=no violence+creativity

Violence: Avoidable impairment of human needs or rights.
Every violence is different just as every peace should be. A proper diagnose is crucial to a successful resolution

Tool: Communication 

Technique: dialog

History of Conflict studies

Continuum Chart by MariaClaudia SolarteVasquez et.al. (2015)