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     %ENDURING PERPETUAL CONFLICT PRISON RESOLUTION+951121
   %COLONIAL NATION WAR ADDICT CODEPENDENT VIOLENCE+951121
    %ADOLESCENT REBELLION WIN DOMINATE WEAK VICTIMS 951121

     Each unresolved conflict creates prisons for all  the
people affected by the unresolved conflict.    The natures
of the prisons  depend upon the relative amounts of  power
of the people affected by the conflict---and upon how they
respond  to the conflict and the other participants in the
conflict.    The  prisons usually endure as  long  as  the
conflicts endure---yet some people learn how to  transcend
the prisons before the conflicts are resolved;  and so are
empowered to help to resolve the conflicts.

     Powerful   people   often  try  to  overwhelm   their
opponents in conflicts,  seeking  to  win through superior
intelligence,  dedication, research, science,  technology,
strategy,   weapons,   resources,   personnel,   training,
discipline,   etc.     The  behavior of  such  people  is,
nevertheless,   determined  by the behavior of their  less
powerful  opponents---and  often echoes  the  behavior  of
their less powerful opponents.   They rarely transcend the
disintegrative  examples set by their opponents.   In fact
they  usually refine and take their opponents examples  to
extremes.    Colonial  powers,  major  nations,   dominant
political   powers,    dictators,    corporation    CEO's,
presidents,  administrators,  and parents often illustrate
such  tendencies.    In their various forms of  domination
they are imprisoned, because their behaviors are dominated
by the people whom they seek to dominate.

     Weak  people usually try out various combinations  of
subservience,    placation,   codependence,    subversion,
depression, lethargy, slow-downs, secrecy, deception, etc.
They seek to compensate for their weakness by being subtly
clever  and covert.   Colonies,  under-developed  nations,
peasants,     blue-collar   workers,    manual   laborers,
adolescents  and  young  children  often  illustrate  such
tendencies.  They are imprisoned in their various forms of
rebellion  because  their behaviors are dominated  by  the
adversary against whom they rebel.

     When   adversaries  are  reasonably  evenly   matched
overall as to power---their relationships are dominated by
attempts  to become dominant in the relationship.    Their
relationship is a contest in which they seek dominance  at
the  expense of the other.   Relationships between the few
most powerful nations in the world have often  illustrated
such patters; e.g., the USA versus the USSR and Red China;
or  Germany  and  Italy versus the rest  of  the  European
nations and the USA in World War II.  Such contestants are
dominated   by  the  behaviors  of  each  other  and   are
imprisoned  by  them;  even when they succeed in  becoming
dominant.

     The   prisons  of  un-resolved  conflicts  cannot  be
escaped by becoming dominant,  or  even by eliminating the
adversary---for the memories of the un-resolved past  will
endure  in the lives of the minds and hearts of the  young
people who know what happened.

     The  only  way  to  escape from the  prisons  of  un-
resolved  conflicts is to seek integrative ideals,  values
and  principles   in terms of which the  participants  can
find win-win resolutions of their conflicts.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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