Abstract
In this chapter, the authors propose the Trust and Conflict Map as a tool for assessing the interdependent relationship between trust and the multilayered themes of conflict. They first problematise the lack of focus on trust in existing approaches to conflict assessment. Then, rooted in the empirical case study of the frozen conflict between Moldova and Transdniestria, the authors explore the obstacles to building strong trust relations more than two decades after open violence has ended. They discuss how the cycle of trust relations is interwoven with social conditions and visualise it using a Trust-Conflict DNA helix model, which can be used to inform reconciliation efforts interventions at the civil society and community level of analysis. In an effort to construct a comprehensive and parsimonious model, it conceptualises intergroup trust as five types of trust, each of them a dimension that measures intergroup trust: Competence, Integrity, Compassion, Compatibility and Security.