ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book explores different approaches to understanding what needs to be transformed. It also explores some of the strategies for transformation that the literature believes to be the most significant agents of change. It focuses on some of the key texts in the academic literature on transformation to identify core components of the concept. It approaches the concept through an analysis of the transformative elements found in four historic traditions of thought: religious, liberal, Marxist and feminist. When discussing economic transformation author challenged a simplistic peace through development idea, and explored some suggestions about how to use economic development as a conflict transformation strategy in situations of violent intercommunal conflict. The book, as Aronson points out, has an arbitrary, eccentric quality, and is too obsessed with Marxism to offer a balanced discussion of revolutionary change.
