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Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution (CFCR)
An Introduction
An Experiment with New Processes
CFCR is an experiment in creating new conflict resolution processes. It represents one attempt to infuse conflict resolution practices with a focus on unity as both a method and an outcome.
CFCR began to emerge a decade ago when it was pioneered by Dr. H. B. Danesh and Dr. R. Danesh. The ideas and practices associated with CFCR have since been used on a small-scale in a number of contexts, including marriage and family conflicts and within corporations and schools (Micro Conflicts). It has also been incorporated in the Education for Peace program in one hundred schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving approximately 80,000 students and 10,000 teachers and schools staff (Macro Conflict).
CFCR has been influenced by a wide range of ideas, values and practices including: the growth of the contemporary conflict resolution movement; transformative and therapeutic intervention models; and social, political and religious thought which highlights processes of individual and collective change in an age of globalization and developmental psychology.
While particular processes and practices have been developed as part of CFCR, it is important to recognize that CFCR is a dynamic phenomenon, open to change, growth and evolution. It is one clear expression of how a focus on unity may be brought into the contemporary conflict resolution movement.
More than anything, CFCR attempts to encourage new thinking and exploration of our understanding of conflict resolution and the actions and efforts we take to resolve conflict.
Applications
Conflicts can be large and complex (macro) or small and contained (micro). They may be intractable and enduring or open to quick, easy resolution. They may involve a few, easily identifiable individuals or entire populations, the key actors of which are hard to identify.
CFCR offers insight into how we approach the whole range and types of conflicts.
The theory and models employed in CFCR aim to encourage proactive, educative and unity-centered conflict resolution in both micro and macro, intractable and tractable conflicts.
As such, at times CFCR might be taught and practiced with an analogy to problem-solving mediation, while at other times it might be applied in relation to an organizational systems model, a training methodology or another context altogether.
The main objective in all of these approaches, however, is to open the door for individuals to examine how the ideas and values that animate CFCR may be put into practice in a wide range of contexts. This may involve anything from individuals exploring adaptations or developments to their own existing approaches to conflict resolution, to institutions and organizations and communities trying to find solutions to their intractable and persistent conflicts.
A Focus on Creative Resolution of Conflict
Learning CFCR is about adopting a creative stance towards resolving conflict and towards one's own conflict resolution practices.
CFCR perceives that managing conflict requires individuals to have a framework which can be creatively, dynamically and contextually adapted to different circumstances.
As such, learning CFCR is less about coaching in skills and steps and more about reflecting on the values which drive forward conflict resolution, the ways in which those values may be activated and personalizing the methods one uses to make them practical.
While the language of skills and steps is often used in CFCR training, it is more for comparative purposes-to illustrate clearly what distinguishes CFCR from the values, ideas and practices underlying other conflict resolution orientations.
Publications further expanding on the concept of CFCR, include:
Danesh, H.B., & Danesh R. (2002). 'Has
Conflict Resolution Grown Up? Toward a Developmental Model of Decision
Making and Conflict Resolution'. International Journal of Peace
Studies, 7(1): 59–76.-
Danesh, H.B., & Danesh R (2002). ‘A
consultative conflict-resolution model: Beyond alternative dispute resolution’.
International Journal of Peace Studies, 7(2).
For more information about CFCR training programs around the world please contact EFP-International at info@efpinternational.org.
