Duality is studied for an abstract equilibrium problem which includes, amon
g others, optimization problems and variational inequality problems. Follow
ing different schemes, various duals are proposed and primal-dual relations
hips are established under certain generalized convexity and generalized mo
notonicity assumptions. In a primal-dual setting, existence results for a s
olution are derived for different generalized monotone equilibrium problems
within each duality scheme.