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Introduction:
According to Mari Fitzduff, Executive Director of INCORE,
different stages of conflict demand different skills and types of
intervention. Being able to ascertain when to do what is an important part of
peacemaking.
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Timing
Mari Fitzduff
Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis
University
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I think the best knowledge you have in peace is really just like a
jigsaw, and there's different times when you can do different things. So some
days all you can do is pick up the bodies, comfort the wounded, and try to make
sure it doesn't spiral into violence. Other days you look up and you realize,
God, we've got time to think about integrated education. There's what I call
short term, medium, and long term, and you really need to have people working on
them all. Some days you cannot work on the crisis stuff; you've got to
work on the training of people to deal with the crisis stuff as opposed to
actually doing the crisis stuff.
So in a way it's taking advantage of all of the different opportunities that
you get within a conflict, given that there often are times when some days are
not as bad as others and some years might not be as bad as others.
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