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Examples of Peacemaking Some peacemaking methods include negotiation, mediation, arbitration, sanctions, judicial settlement, or blockading. Here are some examples of peacemaking in action: Mozambique's 16-year civil war ended after the successful negotiation of a peace agreement in 1992.

Peacebuilding can include conflict prevention; conflict management; conflict resolution and transformation, and post-conflict reconciliation.

Peacebuilding brings protagonists together to identify and address the root causes of the conflict. Peacekeeping is often associated with UN Peacekeepers, whose role is to maintain peace during and after a conflict. Their role involves providing temporary services such as security and administration.

Peacebuilding efforts aim to manage, mitigate, resolve and transform central aspects of the conflict through official diplomacy; as well as through civil society peace processes and informal dialogue, negotiation, and mediation.

Peacebuilding is the development of constructive personal, group, and political relationships across ethnic, religious, class, national, and racial boundaries. It aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the structural conditions that generate deadly conflict.

The UN defines peacemaking as the diplomatic efforts to end conflict, whereas peace enforcement is the active use of force. Tools for peace-enforcement are sanctions, blockades, and military intervention.

Unlike peacekeeping, peacemaking uses mutual dialogue to achieve fair agreement about how to solve the immediate problem, thereby removing the parties' incentives to use violence. Peacebuilding is transformation of social relations: repairing the systemic factors that were causing and exacerbating harmful conflict.

Categorizing approaches to peacebuilding In a very broad sense, there are three primary approaches to peacebuilding, which each correspond to three primary types of peace: (1) negative peace vs. (2) positive peace (Galtung) vs. (3) justpeace (Lederach, sometimes spelled "just peace").

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) promotes research, policy analysis, education, and training on international peace and conflict resolution in an effort to prevent and resolve violent conflicts, and to promote post-conflict stability.