CMRAI-C2: Managing intractable conflict
Class: IS404 Created Time: October 12, 2021 9:33 AM Database: Class Notes Database Last Edited Time: October 26, 2021 5:03 PM Type: Reading Notes
- Communication between adversaries is key in keeping a long term conflict from boil into violent conflicts.
- negative perceptions and attitude need to be changed possitively between adversaries
- shift of behavioral pattern from demonization to humnaization, from stereotypes to empathy
- Removing incompatibilities by formula to increase compatibilities between their goals
- multi-step conflict resolution approach
- identify different types of controversial/contentious issues
- discover underlying reasons
- create system/process to eliminate them
- Conflict prevention is more effective, cheaper, and easier to do than stopping a conflict or dealing with the destruction it causes.
- Peaceful Resolutions are pursuing goals without violence
- coercive appraches create backlash, retaliation, repressed negative emotions, violent resistent
- Peaceful Resolutions are pursuing goals without violence
- To prevent fear and mistrust from turning violent you have to manage the behavior of states in dealing with one another that could be done through
- Institutional structures: to reduce inequality and other sources of tension/grievence
- Humanitarian intervention as a framework to reduce and mange violence and threats against civilians
- International interventions can be used to help a state without proper order and government to have societal order and protect civilians.
- Coercive diplomacy could be used but must be used with long-term planning in mind
- but political and economical solutions are also important in dealing with ongoing disputes to stop dependence on outside assistence