{"id":1475,"date":"2014-05-12T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/?page_id=1475"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:08:51","slug":"using-dividers-and-connectors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/using-dividers-and-connectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Dividers and Connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Track Dividers and Connectors over time. They get better or worse. Change over time matters! You must track this! Update your understanding of the context regularly.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Teams do analysis work better than individuals. Always check your understanding.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Who is divided? Who gains from conflict? <i>Cui bono<\/i>?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Which Dividers are <i>dangerous<\/i>? Which ones will lead to violence?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Which Connectors can <i>you support<\/i>?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>New Connectors cannot be built or created by outsiders. People can build their own new Connectors and will make their own decisions about how and where they want to be connected.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t rely on \u201chope lines\u201d. Don\u2019t hope that a new activity will turn out to be a Connector. Be aware of the already existing Connectors and support them.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A specific Divider cannot be addressed by developing a \u201cconnector\u201d to counter it. What are you trying to stop? Figure out a way to stop it.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be romantic about Connectors and about people\u2019s desire to be connected. Be honest. If, for example, working together does not increase people\u2019s sense of connectedness, then working together isn\u2019t a Connector.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes people try to create \u201cconnectors\u201d to address specific Dividers (such as a farming project that has workers from two groups involved). If these two groups were not divided or if working together does not actually increase their sense of connectedness, then this is not a real Connector; it represents a \u201chope line\u201d of the intervenor.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>All mixed institutions are not Connectors. If they are segregated inside, the people involved in them may be experiencing constant and rising tensions.<sup><a href=\"#sup-1\" name=\"footnote-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Before imagining other, new things you can do, look at what you are doing now. Fix the things you are already doing in order to ensure positive, not negative, impacts. Then look for other opportunities.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Be specific! This is important. What are people doing?<\/br><br \/>\nIf you think something is a divider, ask: how does it divide people? Why is it important? What is it about that factor that divides people?<\/br><br \/>\nSimilarly, connectors and local capacities for peace should not be romanticized or over generalized.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"box\">Previous Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/understanding-dividers-and-connectors\/\" title=\"Understanding Dividers and Connectors\">Understanding Dividers and Connectors<\/a><br \/>\nNext Page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/wordpress\/from-principle-to-practice\/common-misunderstandings-about-dividers-and-connectors\/\" title=\"Common Misunderstandings about Dividers and Connectors\">Common Misunderstandings about Dividers and Connectors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<br \/>\n<a title=\"How to do a Dividers\/Connectors Analysis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/how-to-do-a-dividersconnectors-analysis\/\">How to do a Dividers\/Connectors Analysis<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Key Questions to unlock Dividers and Connectors\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/key-questions-to-unlock-dividers-and-connectors\/\">Key Questions to unlock Dividers and Connectors<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Do No Harm SAVES: Categories for Disaggregating a Context\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/do-no-harm-saves-categories\/\">Do No Harm SAVES: Categories for Disaggregating a Context<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Dividers and Connectors as Categories\" href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/dividers-and-connectors-as-categories\/\">Dividers and Connectors as Categories<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"success\"><a href=\"#footnote-1\" name=\"sup-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> <em>&#8220;All mixed institutions are not Connectors. If they are segregated inside, the people involved in them may be experiencing constant and rising tensions.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nMany organizations involved in interventions intentionally develop themselves in order to have mixed staff. Yet, they too can be segregated within the organization. If one group gets management jobs, while others are excluded, or if just one group gets jobs as drivers or secretaries, this can lead to jealousies. The internal make up of the organization can emphasize the dividing mindset even though the organization was trying to do the opposite!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nCritical Detail Mapping goes into more depth on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.principletopractice.org\/from-principle-to-practice\/critical-detail-staffing\/\">staffing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Track Dividers and Connectors over time. They get better or worse. Change over time matters! You must track this! Update your understanding of the context regularly. &nbsp; Teams do analysis work better than individuals. Always check your understanding. &nbsp; Who is divided? Who gains from conflict? Cui bono? &nbsp; Which Dividers are dangerous? 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