Corrections, military and police personnel during the Conflict & Dialogue workshop.

Conflicts don’t just happen, they build up, says Pacific Centre for Peace-building Facilitator/Counsellor Vosita Lenisaurua. 

Speaking during the Conflict Analysis and Dialogue workshop in Suva for security forces’ personnel, Lenisaurua said as humans, our conflicts is part of our lives because it is ‘embedded in our relationships’. 

“We can agree and we can disagree, we can also agree to disagree. Conflict is dynamic, that is, it changes, it can build and it can lie low beneath the surface. 

“It can be positive and it can be negative – positive in the sense that unless there is conflict, we can never understand what another person is thinking or wants,” Lenisaurua explained. 

Participants were told that the levels of conflict include intrapersonal, interpersonal, intra-group and intergroup. 

Sources of conflict include exclusion, suppression, discrimination, exploitation, inequality, neglect, corruption, abuse of power, stereotyping and injustice. 

PCP offers a range of tailor- made services in the areas of mediation, restorative justice, stress and trauma awareness and healing, conflict analysis, prevention, and resolution. 

There is an office at 17 Komo Street, Samabula and one at 28 Madhaven Street in Labasa. 

The NGO works with the private, non- governmental and civil society sectors as well as the government, intergovernmental, regional and international institutions and bodies. 


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