Healthcare Promotion at the Service of Peacemaking: Instances of Discourse between Health and Peace

This original article examines the causes, effects, and remedies oforganizational interrelationships in between healthcare andconflict resolution. Peace and stability can be brought about bywhat is generally termed medical diplomacy. Although conflictsare generally inevitable in human life, there are ways and meansto discern the causes from the effects-especially in cases wherehealth care and healthcare personnel can bring about reduction ofthe level of enmity between/amongst hostile parties. Healthcareorganizations can be either too large or too small; however, bothof them can be effective in counselling the conflict parties,leading to the erosion of frustration and the bringing about ofsome level of non-directive understanding. Talk is also here madeof the involvement of health care delivery by women whogenerally have the role of bringing down the level of tension. Thiscan best happen when women deliberations have previously beenmade over and above those between the peace-makingmanager/team and the involved parties. Smoothing of the level ofstress by healthcare workers is not just through bodily means:they can bring about at least some level of peace of mind, too.They can also intervene in cases where there is some dominanceof power so that the imposition of any solution by themanagement of peacemaking groupings is itself at hazard. Theintervention of health provision in any conflict is therefore againone of the most important key terms growing out of thedevelopment of the course of either national or internationalconflict management.

کلیدواژه ها:

medical diplomacy ، healthcare workers ، conflict parties ، conflict management ، health provision ، women s work