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     %LEARNING FROM INTEGRATIVE TERRORIST COMMUNITY 880703

     The power of a terrorist group,  or of any  alienated
community which is perceived to threaten the integrity  of
the broader community, is power which is bestowed upon the
alienated  community  by virtue of the  integrity  of  its
values  and  ideals,   and the integrity  with  which  its
members are committed to their ideals and values.

     That   person  or  group  which  is  totally  without
integrity  has no meaningful power and will  not  survive.
To  the extent that a person or group survives with  power
to make a difference in the lives of others, there must be
some measure of integrity in that person or group.

     If  the person or group which has power is  alienated
from  the broader community,  in that alienation there  is
danger to the broader community.   The danger lies in  the
alienation; for the alienation is a break in the integrity
of  the  larger group,  and so threatens the power of  the
larger  group to survive with meaning.   The correction to
the  danger is to overcome the alienation.   All too often
the corrective actions have been tragic efforts to control
the  alienated person or group;  efforts at control  which
generate  further  alienation and  disintegration  of  the
community as a whole.

     The  community  as a whole needs to  promote  overall
integrity  by seeking to learn the source of the power  of
the  alienated person or group.   When the community as  a
whole  learns  the source of the power  of  the  alienated
members  of the alienated community,  the community  as  a
whole  will  know  the keys to their power,   and  to  the
integration of the community as a whole.

     The  way  to  know  the  keys to  the  power  of  the
alienated   group  is  to  be  in  sympathetic   dialogue,
conversation,   communication  with them.   All too  often
those keys to power are not known because leaders fear  to
know  the  truths which are the keys to the power  of  the
group  from  which  they are alienated.   To  deal  in  an
integrative  way with the power of your enemy you need  to
understand  in a sympathetic way the keys to  the power of
the  enemy;  i.e.,  the integrative ideals which lead  and
motivate your enemy to oppose you.   It is hard to  accept
the idea that integrative people would ever oppose you.

     Often  people impute evil motives,  nature,   ideals,
knowledge,   etc.    to  their enemy.    Such  imputations
intensify the alienation which keeps the alienated parties
from  learning the sources of each other's  power;   i.e.,
through    sympathetic   dialogue,    conversation,    and
conversions  through listening to each others  ideals  and
aspirations.

     The   nature  of  the  relationship  between  enemies
resides in the character of the relationships,  not in the
essential   characters   of   the  participants   in   the
relationships.   The relationship is enemy-like because of
the alienation,  ignorance,   rejection,  fear, avoidance,
etc. regarding the ideals and values which bestow power to
each coherent subculture.     The disintegrative violence,
of the relationship can be transcended not by more threats
of  violence  and disintegration,  but through integrative
efforts to become sympathetically familiar with the ideals
and  values  which  bestow  power  on  each  side  of  the
conflict.

     If  each side in a conflict has substantial power  by
virtue of their respective degrees of integrity,  consider
the power which would be bestowed upon the whole, were the
ignorance  of  each other's  integrative  ideals  overcome
through sympathetic dialogue!  Power will be bestowed upon
those  who overcome their ignorance of their enemy's  most
integrative ideals and values. Power is not given to those
who   alienate   themselves   from  their   enemy's   most
integrative  ideals and values;  for such alienation leads
to disintegration and loss of power.

     It  is important to people trapped in  disintegrative
ideals   to   come   to   understand   the   dynamics   of
disintegration,  and the power bestowed upon those who are
the agents of integration.   Confusion regarding the roots
of  power leads to disintegration.   Real  power does  not
reside in the ability to disintegrate,  but in the ability
to  bring together that which is separated and needs to be
together;  i.e.,  people who have differing powers through
their  differing  integrative ideals  and  values.    When
complementary ideals and values  are  integrated   into  a
coherent  whole,   power  is  bestowed   upon  the   newly
integrated   community.  When  people  with  complementary
ideals  and  values alienate each other through ignorance,
misunderstanding, fear and  dishonest manipulations;  they
lose   power   through  disintegration  of  their   global
community.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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