The helpfulness of a workshop on Laying-Foundations for Mitigating Conflicts-Which- Generate-Alienation - - - depends upon the participants all keeping well-focused upon: Laying-Foundations for The-Mitigation <=> The-Overall-Reduction In-the-Long-Term; of Conflicts which Generate-Alienation - - - while avoiding distractions into focusing upon considerations of: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Resolving particular past, present and/or future conflicts which are on the minds of participants. 2. Making judgements about participants in particular past, present and/or future conflicts - - - - 3. Assessing degrees of blame attributable to participants in considered particular conflicts - - - 4. Assessing who is "Good" and who is "Evil" - - - 5. Comments made by other participants about particular conflicts - - - 6. Commenting themselves in the workshop about particular conflicts - - - 7. Caring for victims on one side of some particular conflict - - - 8. Trying to serve as a referee in some particular conflict - - - 9. Making in-public-ways, comments about some particular conflict - - - 10. Getting involved in media coverage of some particular conflict - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People who have demonstrated any unbalanced perspective of past, present and/or future conflicts - - - are not likely to be able to help Lay-Foundations for Mitigating Conflicts-Which-Generate-Alienation - - - because they are likely then to be viewed as supporting one side or the other in unfair ways - - - regardless of what is actually true about them. Be Graciously-Together in Shalom's-Sanctuaries! Be Graciously-Engaged in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues!