CONFLICT MANAGEMENT OR CONFLICT RESOLUTION?: THE ORETICALLY APPROACH TO THE PEACE NEGOTIATION PROCESS

Conflicts, which are the natural part of daily life and are defined as the struggle that they have experienced because of the unalterable interests of the parties, seem to have turned into internal armed conflicts that have increased especially in the post-Cold War era. The internal armed conflicts that have been occurred in different geographies of the world during the present century make way for the conflict negotiation process that is one of the stages of conflict resolution and the conflict resolution which is the sub-phase of conflict management which covers the whole of conflict and peace research phases. The main focus of this study is the theoretical approach to peace negotiation processes by revealing the conflict management and conflict resolution concepts. The main purpose of creating a study in this direction is to create the conceptual and theoretical framework of peace negotiation processes that represent a sensitive phase. On the other hand, it is analyzed the conceptualization of peace negotiation processes that express the interaction of the parties in order to end the conflict under which “top title” in the frame of the peace researches literature. In this context, it is handled that whether these concepts should be used as a top title or a separate process in the axis of the peace process in the conflict resolution and peace researches literatüre