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Monday October 25 2010Lecture 8: Strategies for addressing conflict I

PS 2A03: Conflict Transformation

Dr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Skills & strategies...Strategies for addressing conflict I

1Monday, 25 October 2010


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Outline

Paradigms (recap)

Internal conflict

example

The Onion

The ABC Triangle

The Conflict Tree



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What do yousee?

A younger women?

An older women?



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What do you see?



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Those who think they can resolve all contradictions,thereby producing a contradiction-free, surprise-free,society, are in for the greatest surprises.

Johan Galtung (1996)



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As I had always done, and as I had always seen other

trainers do, I started the mediation by providing anoverview of the process and then giving a directdemonstration through a role play.

John Paul Lederach (1995)



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The materials were in Spanish. The role play was fromGuatemala. We did it in fluent Spanish. The twodisputants were Guatemalan.




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What was there in this process I kept asking myself ,that could take two Guatemalans and turn them intogringos?




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That comment has stuck with me every since. It was aneye-opener and represented what I sometimes refer tohumorously as refer to as my Kuhnian paradigm shift.




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Prior to this, I had gone along with most practitionersin the field in asking:

What cultural differences and nuances exist amongstCentral Americans that need to be taken into account as wework at conflict resolution?




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My question now turned in the opposite direction:

What are the cultural assumptions of the North Americanmodel of mediation?




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...perhaps more important, embedded subtly in mytraining project was the unintended reside ofimperialism.




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The cultural assumptions of my context were moved totheirs with the underlying premise that mine were theright way to go and that they should learn them.




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Fisher et al((2000)



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The Onion

What was the position Lederach was taking?

What are his interests?

What are his needs?



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Johan Galtung (2000)



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Effects

Core problem

Causes

Fisher et al(2000)



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My prevailing question is no longer:

How do we adapt our conflict resolution model to the

Hispanic context?

Too often, I have discovered that I am really asking:

How do we fit Hispanics into our model?




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Rather my concern is this:

How do we foster a pedagogical project that respects andempowers people to understand, participate in creating, andstrengthen appropriate models for working at conflict intheir own context?




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Summary

Paradigms

Fallibility

Self-transformation

Onion

ABC Triangle

Conflict Tree



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Citations & further reading

Simon Fisher, Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Richard Smith, Steve Williams and

Sue Williams (2000) Working With Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action, New York:Zed Books

Johan Galtung (1996) Peace by peaceful means: peace and conflict, development and

civilization, Sage Publications, London.

John Paul Lederach (1995) Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures,Syracuse university Press: New York.



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