This is http://www.essayz.com/a9305143.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %SYSTEMIC SILENCE LACK TALK DIVERT ATTENTION FOCUS+930514 %STUDENT FEAR MANIPULATE INVOLVEMENT CLASS STUDY+930514 %POWER POLITICS CONFLICT RESOLUTION CONTROL 930514 In power politics powerful people overwhelm the objections of less powerful people regarding the decisions and actions which are favored by the powerful people. In power politics creative conflict resolution in the style of "GETTING TO YES", "GETTING TOGETHER" and "GETTING PAST NO" are not the "order of the day". Power politics may be exercised by means of economics by businessmen who dominate political procedures as in the traditional respected forms of colonialism and many forms of "conservatism" which conserve the welfare of powerful businesses. Power politics may be exercised through legal uses of parliamentary and legislative procedures within which the interests of the powerless minorities are inadequately represented and inadequately considered. Power politics may be exercised through illegal uses of parliamentary and legislative procedures which are masked with appearances of respectability. Power politics may be exercised by use of veiled threats of various forms of abuse and violence. Power politics may be exercised by overt physical and psychological violence. The latter forms of power politics are rooted in the former forms of power politics---and so in the failure to value, affirm, study, and put into practice the known WIN- WIN ways of resolving conflict so as to minimize all forms of power politics. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================