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%WHY SENSELESS ILLOGICAL UNREASONABLE CONFLICT SIN+990423
%PEACEMAKER CONFLICT RESOLUTION SHALOM HEALTH LAST 990423
Why is it that so often disintegrative conflicts
last so long? Perhaps disintegrative conflicts
last so long because participants and victims of them:
1. Fail to seek reconciliation with their overt
enemies, and their suspected enemies.
2. Do not focus upon the importance of both
personal integrity and communal integrity --- always held
in balance with each other.
3. Do not focus upon the importance of openness,
honesty, listening, dialogue, and the freedom of all
peoples to describe their own diverse: experiences,
perceptions, beliefs, desires, hopes, aspirations,
inspirations, visions, fantasies, fears and resentments.
4. Do not acknowledge the importance of maintaining
dynamic balance between people's complementary (but
often apparently contradictory): ideals, values,
principles, truths; experiences, perceptions,
beliefs, desires, hopes, aspirations, inspirations,
visions, fantasies, and fears.
5. Do not acknowledge that true security is enjoyed
only within the contexts of communities of diverse
peoples who exchange free gifts of the freedom to be
truly safe in open and honest dialogue with differing
persons.
6. Fail to emphasize the importance of cooperation,
as well as of competition in excellence.
7. Believe, expect and often demand that "losers"
will be: regarded as inferior, humiliated, ridiculed,
punished, abused, excluded, rejected, banished,
excommunicated, imprisoned, and/or executed --- on Earth
and/or in the "life after death".
8. Play collusive games of mutual self deception
within which games which some or all of the above
contributors to disintegrative conflicts are regarded as:
normal, natural, proper, good, and unchangeable.
The tragedies of disintegrative conflicts will
continue so long as we regard much of the above as:
normal, natural, proper, good, and unchangeable. Changing
the above patterns will not be easy, normal, natural, or
cost free. We can help bring about the needed changes
by seeking to recognize, name, describe, honor and
support leaders who show that they are qualified, ready,
willing and able to promote integrative peacemaking and
conflict resolution --- to the benefit of all who have
been involved in disintegrative conflicts and violence.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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