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The Appropriate Central-Role of the leader of any work-shop on how people can cooperate to 
Mitigate Their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - should include the following elements:

1. Helping-Participants to engage with each  other in Reflexive-and-Objective Systems-Analyses
   of Target-Alienative-Conflicts - - - so as to have basic understandings of the Conflicts':

   a. Histories, as seen from diverse relevant perspectives (i.e., rooted-in what events?);
   b. Roots,     as seen from diverse relevant perspectives (i.e., rooted-in what-realities?);
   c. Participants' and their own: Agendas, Tacit-Assumptions, Public-Stands, Private-Stands;
      Ideologies, Paradigms, Wealth, Powers, Vulnerabilities, Challenges, Weaknesses, etc.
   d. Costs/Benefits to the various victims and/or participants;
   e. Long-Term-Prognoses for Resolution - - - - in the absence of effective Mitigation-Efforts.

2. Helping those involved in the work-shop; to understand the contrasting-views of different people

           who have contrasting-perspectives about Alienative-Conflicts and about WHAT: 
   
   Admirable, Honorable, Responsible, Well-Informed and Thoughtful People Can/Should DO-TO: 
 
   Mitigate,  Resolve,   Settle,   Arbitrate,   Control,  Negotiate   or   Otherwise-End   - - -

                                   Various-Such-Alienative-Conflicts

   Long-TERM for ALL of the crew of God's   Astronomically-Tiny-and-Isolated    Space-Ship-Earth