Topics CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Topics:
DIALOG AND
CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Compassion and non-violence enable us to see the enemy's point of view. To hear his questions. To know his assessment of us. It may be through his point of view that we may come to see the basic weaknesses of our own condition. And if we are mature, we may learn, and grow, and profit by the wisdom of our brothers whom we call, 'the opposition'. Martin Luther King Jr.

David Bohm defined 'dialogue' as a free flow of meaning among people in communication. A key difference between dialogue and ordinary conversation is that in the latter, people usually hold relatively fixed positions and argue in favor of their views as they try to convince others to change. In dialogue, however, a person may prefer a certain position, but he or she is ready to listen to others with sufficient sympathy and interest to understand the meaning of others' positions properly, and is also ready to change his or her point of view if there is good reason to do so. Dialogue implies a very deep change in how the mind works. It is essential that each participant suspend his or her point of view, while also holding other points of view in a suspended form and giving full attention to what they mean. In doing so, each participant has to suspend his or her own tacit infrastructure of ideas. Freedom from the tacit infrastructure of ideas, worldview, and so forth, brings about the true spirit of dialogue. Leroy Little Bear ON DIALOG Dialog and Groups Dialogue and Culture On Dialog ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION Easy Personal Conflict Resolution Model RESOURCES Online publications: Journal of Mediation, Conciliation and Conflict Resolution LINKS Institute for International Mediation and Conflict Resolution CONFLICT ANALYSIS & RESOLUTION BOOKSHELF Conflict Resolution Tools The Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution

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