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%PRIDE FOCUS SUCCESS GROWTH CHANGE PRESERVE LOVE+990713
%PROGRESS STEPS STAGES PROCESS DIALOGUE CONFLICT 990713
Much depends upon what is the focus of the pride of
members of a community. Some kinds of foci engender much
more conflict than do other kinds of foci. Contentious
people focus upon disintegrative kinds of foci; and in
contrast gentle people focus upon integrative kinds of
foci.
It is not only the kinds of foci which play a major
role in how much conflict is engendered by the people who
center their attention in conflicts over them. The
attitudes, assumptions, beliefs, convictions, commitments,
personal relationships, and manners of approach to each
other and their work --- play major roles in whether they
engender conflicts, or conflict resolution; i.e.,
peacemaking.
It is for each member of each community to sort out
which kinds of foci and manners of centering on them ---
leads to which kinds of fruits. The following are
suggestive of the kinds of foci which play major roles in
various ways:
1. Goals and processes for reaching goals.
2. Images of perfection and healthy relationships.
3. Images of security and forms of vulnerability.
4. Affirmed dreams, visions and aspirations.
5. Forms of personal and/or communal salvation.
6. Formal versus informal processes/procedures.
7. Creative versus preservative efforts.
8. Idealization of stability versus growth.
9. Idealization of objectivity versus relationships.
10. Reverence of youth versus of maturity.
11. Spiritual versus physical foci.
12. Individualistic versus communal foci.
13. Attention to presence/being versus action/doing.
14. Care/concern for self versus for others.
15. Distinction in extremes versus in balance.
16. Valuing inclusivity versus exclusivity.
17. Not making mistakes versus learning from them.
18. Simplicity versus complexity in living.
19. Solving problems versus resolving dilemmas.
20. Achieving dominance versus being cooperative.
21. Security through invulnerability or cooperation.
22. Love and/or prohibitions, prescriptions, laws.
23. Coercion and/or facilitation.
24. Teaching by lecture and/or by demonstration.
25. Teaching what is good by word and/or deed.
26. Define good in terms of conformity or relations.
27. Define God in terms of love or in terms of laws.
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