ABSTRACT
The conflict resolution field is moving from a paradigm of coherent peace processes, which seek to fit various “pieces of peace” together, to a paradigm of holistic peace processes, which seek a whole peace indivisible into separate parts. To present this shift in the conflict resolution field, this chapter reviews both the development of the literature on building overall peace processes through contingent application of particular conflict resolution interventions in various combinations and at various stages in the peace process, and also the more recent literature that encourages viewing these complex phenomena more dynamically as holistic peace processes.
