The document discusses the nature of peace and conflict. It defines peace as a state of quiet or tranquility without disturbance or violence. Peace can be voluntary through abstaining from agitation or enforced through suppression. How peace is defined determines how one approaches peacemaking. The document also defines conflict as an expressed struggle where interdependent parties perceive incompatible goals or scarce resources and interfere with each other. Conflict can be constructive through understanding issues and finding win-win solutions, or destructive through misunderstanding and win-lose outcomes.

1. THE NATURE OF PEACE

8. INCLUSION KAGINHAWAHAN KALAYAAN RESPECT FOR LIFE DEMOCRACY NON VIOLENCE PANANAGUTAN SA KAPWA PAGKAKAUNAWAAN PAGMAMALASAKIT HUMAN SECURITY COMPASSION PAGTUTULUNGAN PEACE INNER PEACE WELL BEING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PARTICIPATION SOLIDARITY POLITICAL RECONCILIATION GENDER EQUALITY HUMAN RIGHTS KAAYUSAN ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE TOLERANCE SOCIAL EQUITY JUSTICE E C A E P

9. As defined by the United Nations, the Culture of Peace is a set of values, attitudes, modes of behavior and ways of life that reject violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among individuals, groups and nations

10. Since wars begin in the minds of men (and women), it is in the minds of men (and women) that defenses of peace must be constructed " Constitution of UNESCO, 1945

11. THE NATURE OF CONFLICT

14. GLOBAL/PLANETARY INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL REGIONAL FAMILY COMMUNITY WORK PLACE SCHOOL INTRA PERSONAL Structural Conflict Physical Conflict Sociocultural Conflict Ecological Conflict LEVELS AND DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICTS

17. Conflicts can be classified as constructive or destructive based on the process used in managing them and the outcomes of the conflict.

22. Summary are not committed to nor satisfied with the solution are committed to and satisfied with the solution feel misunderstood and rejected feel understood and accepted win-lose win-win “ your” problem “ our” problem Destructive Constructive