ABSTRACT
Johan Galtung, one of the founding fathers of conflict resolution, identified the three components of this new discipline as peacekeeping, peacemaking and peacebuilding.2 Although it is generally held that these represent three consecutive stages of conflict resolution, there is some acknowledgement that sometimes peacemaking, or even peace-enforcement, has to precede peacekeeping and that there is, of necessity, a considerable overlap between all three stages.3 Thus, the United Nations Organisation’s concept of peacemaking is directed more at cessation of hostilities,4 whereas Jean Paul Lederach’s vision of peacebuilding5
encompasses elements of both peacemaking and conflict prevention; an attempt, perhaps, to transform the conflict triangle into a circle of resolution.6
