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What constitutes a 'conflict' among human teams, enterprises or international locations? How do humans understand and behave in conflicts? How do conflicts come to an finish and what half can outsiders play in settling them or making them much less destructive? the current paintings seeks to respond to such questions.
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To the early Catholic activists, the issues in dispute were discrimination, social reform and their community's lack of genuine participation in Ulster politics. At this early stage there was no mention of the boundary problem or unity with Eire. However, the Protestant majority defined the issues as the traditional ones of unification vs the continuation of Ulster's British connection, so that Catholic activity was perceived as yet another attack on the integrity of the state. The existence of opposing definitions of 'what the conflict is about' implies that one way of gaining one's own goal in such a conflict is to influence the other party so that the latter accepts one's own way of regarding what issues are in conflict.
At an inter-personal level, Horai gives the example of parents disagreeing about the source of undesired physical symptoms displayed by their child, and coming into conflict about whether the cause of a rash might be insect bites or some form of psychosomatic disturbance. At the intra-societal level, similar disagreements arise over the causes of large scale unemployment, while in international relations, disagreements about the fundamental causes of Third World poverty have produced causal analyses ranging from those which point to the detrimental effects of the capitalist system _in exploiting Third World resources and their peoples, to those which underline the Third Wodd's initial poverty, over-population, tra~ii tional values, and general misgovernment and instability.
Clear analysis should always precede action, and this is the case whether one is trying to understand a conflict, win it, or find a solution before it becomes too destructive. Consider the prime problem of how a society, intra o• international, can cope with intense conflicts. To a large degree, tht manner in which any social system attempts to deal with conflict depends upon the dominant theories in that society about the nature of the phenomenon, about its structures, and about the way in which it STRUCTURE 33 develops (perhaps in 'undesirable' directions).