Assertiveness, Conflict, and Peacemaking

This chapter analyses the correspondence between assertiveness and conflict in peacemaking processes. The descriptive method employed a conceptual analysis focused on the foundations that have defined the history of assertiveness to construct a category centred on social relations and the historical-political condition inherent to the human being and, therefore, to assertiveness. Based on documentary research and semi-structured and in-depth interview techniques, an analysis was conducted of the assertiveness, conflicts, positioning, and reflexivity of individuals victimised by structural violence. Also included are previously published materials that enable comprehensive understanding of the processes and cycles of victimisation and assertiveness, both in their political and diachronic conditions.