ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the roles of processes in peacemaking, and presents process choices peacemakers have made during multiple different peacemaking initiatives. Processes emphasize individual agency, invitation, and nested conflicts. An example of peacemaking amongst Appalachian environmental activists illustrates these concepts in interrelated individual, community, and national conflict. The chapter considers shifts in interiority for individuals, and then turns to individual and group shifts in US–Russian dialogue. The chapter highlights opening up and taking chances as elements of effective peacemaking. Next, the chapter turns to reviewing psychodynamic approaches to peacemaking in Estonia and the Baltics, and then considers preventive diplomacy approaches in Estonia, taking a people-centered approach to such peacemaking and highlighting several individual people who engaged in preventive diplomacy in Estonia.
