Chart # 1 describes the results of the questions that asked whether or not the peacemakers find each core capacity in their clients. Each question forced a “yes” or “no” response. I find it interesting that four of the five capacities are so prevalent as “yes” and that the one capacity, the desire to reconcile, falls so much lower on the scale of prevalence in comparison to the others. This may highlight some of the earlier literature findings that matched ongoing relationships and closeness of the combatants, to reconciliation behavior. It may also mean that although the capacity to reconcile is there, the desire to reestablish relations is not present, at least at the point in the conflict timing that the peacemakers are generally seeing their clients. It may also mean that in our individualist Western society there may not be a perceived, or real, need to reconcile differences when moving out of conflict.

The answers for the bottom four categories fall more in line with what the literature reviews and previous studies would have predicted. The prediction being that these core capacities would be found in most people, in most conflict situations. The answers do not indicate that these capacities were used to help resolve the conflicts encountered, but they do give weight to the idea that peacemakers are experiencing these capabilities on a very regular, and perhaps predictable, frequency. Can we draw from these results the conclusion that most people we encounter in conflict will have these core capacities and that we can plan to work with those capacities? Probably not. Although the data would seem to point us in that direction, too many unanswered questions remain. At what points in the conflict do these capacities become most available to parties? Do they emerge in all parties at the same time? Are they always present, or do they come and go as the process follows its path? Are the levels of each capacity matched within the people in conflict so they can be useful? What role does the mediator play in eliciting these behaviors and does the behavior depend upon the expertise of the mediator?