ps 2a03 (2010) lecture 10: strategies for addressing conflict iii
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Monday November 8 2010Lecture 10: Strategies for addressing conflict III
PS 2A03: Conflict TransformationDr Colin Salter, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University
Skills & strategies...Strategies for addressing conflict III
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Outline
Prescriptive model
Elicitive model
Encounter Point
Dialogue as process
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Prescriptive model
This is what we do This is how we do it
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Prescriptive model
The goal of learning for participants is to understandand master the model.
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Elicitive model
What do we do?This is what we do
This is how we do it How do we do it?
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The emphasis is not only on empowerment as
participating in creating models, but also in seeking...root in the cultural context itself.
Elicitive model
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I do not have the answer, but I can work together withothers on a process that may help us find it.
Elicitive model
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A starting point
What do the main film subjects have in common?
What are some of their differences?
How are they able to work together despite thesedifferences?
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Instead of channeling it into revenge, the people in ourgroup have chosen another direction for their pain. The
pain breaks down barriers very quickly betweenPalestinians and Israelis in the group. There's a sense oftrust. It's not hummus and hugsit's much deeper thanthat...
Robi Damelin
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...it's acknowledgement and empathy, which happen
much faster than in a normal meeting between aPalestinian and an Israeli because we recognize eachother immediately through the pain.
Robi Damelin
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Our belief in what we do increases as a result of ourwork, and we are really inventing a new language thatwasn't heard previously.
I never before heard an Israeli say that the occupationis unacceptable and that the Israelis are the ones whoshould resist it.
Ali Abu Awwad
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I didn't hear this from any Israeli; I heard this from
Israelis who lost sons and daughters. This made mebelieve that there is an alternative language.
Ali Abu Awwad
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Each person's development on the path ofreconciliation is different. It takes time. I can see how I
myself have grown over the past two years, thedifference in the way I respond to questions nowcompared to where I was two years ago; it's completelydifferent.
Robi Damelin
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This is a long difficult path of learning, of tolerance, ofbeing able to dialogue with a settler and to dialoguewith somebody who's very angry; you learn that.
Robi Damelin
Robi Damelin
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This is a long difficult path of learning, of tolerance, ofbeing able to dialogue with a settler and to dialoguewith somebody who's very angry; you learn that.
Robi Damelin
Robi Damelin
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Sustained is dialogue defined as an interactive processdesigned to change conflictual relationships over time.
Harold Saunders (1999)
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How might we reconceptualize our conflict so that weview ourselves as in it together and therefore gettingout of it together?
Jay Rothman (1996)
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Summary
Elicitive & Prescriptive A critical tension
Encounter Pointandsustained dialogue
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Citations & further reading
Parent forum - Breeaved Families Criclehttp://www.theparentscircle.com/
John Paul Lederach (1995) Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures,Syracuse university Press: New York.
Jay Rothman (1996) Reflexive Dialogue as Transformation, Mediation Quarterly, Vo13, No 4: 345-352.
Harold H. Saunders (1999) A Public Peace Process: Sustained Dialogue to Transform
Racial and Ethnic Conflicts, New York: St. Martins Press, pp. 81-96 (Chapter 5: TheDialogue Process).
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Image sources
Dave Boldingers Cartoons & Stuff http://www.dbaldinger.com/opinion_cartoons/second_page/dear_world.html
ames Garvin Ellis. Rodney Powell (standing) talks with other sit-in participants at Walgreens drugstore in Nashville,Tennessee, Friday March 25, 1960 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins
Marc Riboud.Jan Rose Kasmir, protest against the Vietnam War outside the Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia, Saturday,21 October 21, 1967 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rose_Kasmir
Shaney Komulainen. Canadian soldier Patrick Cloutier and Saskatchewan Native Brad Laroque alias 'Freddy Kruger'come face to face in a tense standoff at the Kahnesatake reserve in Oka, Quebec, Saturday September 1, 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis
The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images from the Central Zionist Archives, Martin Buber http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Buber_portrait.jpg
Robi Damelin, Just Vision | Supporting Israeli and Palestinian nonviolent peacebuilders through media andeducation http://www.justvision.org/node/75988
Ali Abu Awwad, Just Vision | Supporting Israeli and Palestinian nonviolent peacebuilders through media andeducation http://www.justvision.org/portrait/ali-abu-awwad
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