The four chambers of the heart of peace: the role of emotional intelligence, counselling skills, and living systems thinking in the transformation of violent conflict: part one

Abstract

The first half of a longer piece – itself the second of a series of four articles looking at working with conflict – in which a generic ground map is presented signposting four key tasks that peacebuilders need to bear in mind in any conflict transformation work. The four tasks involve mapping the ‘what’ of peacebuilding: 1 Personal Resources; 2 Interpersonal and Intercultural Issues; 3 Bio‐psycho‐social Determinants; 4 Organizational and Systemic Dimensions. In the current paper the first two of these are described and discussed.