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The editors establish articulations between the transrational peace philosophy, elicitive methods of conflict transformation and the chapters contained in the book. This chapter introduces Wolfgang Dietrich’s work – particularly around the key terms of elicitive conflict transformation, transrational peaces and elicitive conflict mapping. The introduction further highlights the red thread weaving together the different contributions and underlines the novelties, distinguishing new elaborations and arguments that show new lines of thought. Moreover, the concept of resonance that is drawn from the work of John Paul Lederach is discussed, providing a conceptual frame for the book.
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A fine synopsis of Wolfgang Dietrich’s work provided by himself can be found in the essay “A Brief Introduction to Transrational Peace Research and Elicitive Conflict Transformation” (Dietrich 2014).
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Equally still from the nineties of the last century is the volume published in German as Periphere Integration und Frieden im Weltsystem (Dietrich 1998).
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Dietrich takes over the term transrational from Ken Wilber (2000), yet strips it of the evolutionist and hierarchical connotation it carries in the latter’s approach.
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The probably most prominent example of a prescriptive model can be found in Johan Galtung’s triad of diagnosis-prognosis-therapy (Galtung 2000).
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The global layers and the epicenter remain for Dietrich (2015, 72–92) outside of the scope of practical conflict work, yet these do not make them unnecessary. On the contrary, the awareness of their existence, of our transpersonal interconnectedness changes the perception for elicitive conflict workers about the happenings of the conflict. The complete layers encourage us to consciously perceive conflict parties also as expressions and manifestations of a primal energy to which we belong, which is especially necessary when entering in resonance with others in difficult situations.
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Echavarría Alvarez, J., Koppensteiner, N. (2018). On Resonances: An Introduction to the Transrational Peace Philosophy and Elicitive Conflict Transformation. In: Echavarría Alvarez, J., Ingruber, D., Koppensteiner, N. (eds) Transrational Resonances . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70616-0_1
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