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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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