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%METACONFLICT ROOTS VIOLENCE CONTENTION VALUES LOVE+990306
%IDEALS PRINCIPLES MORALITY ETHICS GOODNESS RIGHT+990306
%LOGIC COHERENCE INTEGRITY RIGHTEOUSNESS GOOD EVIL+990306
%PEACEMAKERS CONFLICT RESOLUTION RECONCILIATION 990306
We are unlikely to be effective peacemakers if we
fail to recognize the roots of our conflicts in layers of
meta-conflicts wherein our daily conflicts sink their
roots and gain nurture.
Some conflicts are rooted simply in conflicting
selfish desires, wants and covetousness. Two people want
the same thing and fight over it; e.g.,
territory, possessions, money, women, food, etc. In
such conflicts there are no high ideals, values,
principles. The conflicts are rooted in self-
centered attempts at dominance; rather than in meta-
conflicts between transcendent values and ideals.
Other conflicts are rooted in conflicts between
competing ideals, values, principles, ethics, moral codes,
etc. In principle the people are committed to high
ideals which transcend self-centered attempts at
dominance. The people are in conflict because of their
high ideals which are in conflict with each other --- in
ways which have not been resolved. The people are in
conflict because of metaconflicts between the
conflicting high ideals. If the people have not agreed
upon meta-ideals, meta-values, meta-principles, and
meta-reasoning through which to resolve meta-conflicts;
the people are unlikely to be able to participate in
meta-conflict-resolution as effective peacemakers.
Often people are dedicated to achieving high levels
of self-righteousness, arrogance, dominance, and
superiority---in accordance to conflicting ideals, values,
principles, and ways of reasoning. Other people may be
dedicated to promoting/enjoying both personal and communal
integrity through the exchange of free gifts of the
freedom to be safely vulnerable in open and honest
dialogue. The people who are dedicated to achieving high
levels of self-righteousness, arrogance, dominance, and
superiority---in accordance to conflicting ideals, values,
principles, and ways of reasoning---will be unable to
recognize that they are engaged in a META-META-conflict
with the people who are dedicated to promoting/enjoying
both personal and communal integrity through the exchange
of free gifts of the freedom to be safely vulnerable in
open and honest dialogue. Such people may regard those
other people who do not see the world through their color
of glasses --- as people who are thoroughly evil and
worthy of excommunication at the hands of the thoroughly
righteous people.
There often exist META-META-conflicts over whether or
not conflicts should ever be truly resolved with positive
advantages to all those who have been victims of the
conflicts. Some people believe that their own fulfillment
will best be achieved by perpetuating the conflicts which
have so greatly harmed them --- so as to insure that those
who have been responsible for the conflicts are at least
equally harmed by the perpetuated conflicts. People make
it their duty to keep alive the memories of past wrongs
--- so that the past wrongs can be righted by additional
wrongs in perpetuated conflicts. Such conflicts do not
end.
META-META-conflicts become exceedingly destructive of
personal and communal integrity --- when those who promote
the conflicts regard their own affirmations as having
exclusive validity; i.e., that to maintain their own
affirmations in their own minds it is essential to deny
the validity of complementary affirmations made by
differing peoples. Then the people engaged in the META-
META-conflicts cannot learn from each other; for they
alienate themselves from each other as mortal enemies who
can never be trusted. They forget that alienation is the
root of and fruit of all evil relationships.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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