Practicing Peace on University Campuses: A Proposed Application of the Lederach Model of Conflict Transformation at the

University of the Free State

Mr. W Ellis

28 January 2009

EED Africa Alumni Conference

Stellenbosch

• Conflict Management - outcome oriented strategies for achieving sustainable win-win solutions and/or putting an end to direct violence, without necessarily addressing the underlying conflict causes

• Conflict Resolution - all process oriented activities that aim to address the underlying causes of direct, cultural and structural violence

• Conflict Transformation - outcome, process and structure oriented long-term peace building efforts which aim to truly overcome revealed forms of direct, cultural and structural violence.

Top LeadershipPoliticalMilitary

Religious

Middle Range LeadershipSector Leaders

Academics Humanitarians

Grassroots LeadershipLocal Communities

High Level Negotiations

(Track I)

•Problem-solving w/shops

•Conflict training

•Peace Commissions

(Track II)

Prejudice reduction

Peace committees

Grassroots training

(Track III)

Lederach’s Triangular Spatial Model

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Horizontal CapacityMoving across the conflict divides such as race, culture, language, gender etc.

Vertical CapacityMoving and connecting

the highest levels with the grassroots communities

Building Peace in Vertical and Horizontal Capacities

Top LeadershipUFS Top Management

National Education ActorsPolitical Parties

Middle Range LeadershipLeading academicsStudent leadership

Change agents

Grassroots LeadershipStudents

Staff

High Level Negotiations

Institute for Diversity

•Problem-solving w/shops

•Conflict training

•Peace Commissions

Prejudice reduction

Peace committees

Grassroots training

Lederach’s Triangular Spatial Model at the UFS

Institute for Diversity

Horizontal CapacityMoving across the conflict divides such as race, culture, language, gender etc.

Vertical CapacityMoving and connecting

the highest levels with the grassroots communities

Building Peace in Vertical and Horizontal Capacities at the UFS