I described the conflict that resulted from a disputed presidential election in Kenya that resulted in a humanitarian and political crisis. The top two presidential candidates were claiming victory, each claiming that the other rigged the elections. The conflict led to nation-wide violence due to the strong support from the ethnically rooted politics on either side. The conflict was resolved using the mediation model, a non-adversarial conflict management process designed to create a joint courteous solution (Furlong, 2005). The international community intervened to resolve the conflict while human rights organizations went in to ensure the rights of the citizens. The two opposing parties came up with power-sharing arrangement which led to …show more content…
An officer walked up to an inmate and gave the order for printing customized sticky notes instead of giving to the second officer, the inmate supervisor. There had been a heated exchange of words until Adejoke stepped in. Christopher Moore’s circle of conflict model was used to resolve the conflict. Moore has come up with five causes of conflict which he depicts as slices of a circular pie. These causes are structural, data, relationships, interests and values. A conflict can arise from one or multiple causes (Furlong 2005). Adejoke found that the conflict arose over something that was considered normal, that is, officers were fond of handing over their orders to the inmates instead of the supervising officer. In addition, this conflict was also based on an earlier incident where the first officer had reported the supervisor and the supervisor had faced disciplinary actions. Adejoke was able to correct the first officer that he ought to hand his order to the supervisor and that the second officer should not retaliate based on previous incidents. The model solved the conflict quickly since neither was praised or blamed. The officers realized their wrongs and apologized to each
In the short story (Most Dangerous Game), Richard Connell states internal and external conflicts throughout the story. The main character rainsford goes through both external and internal conflicts in order to survive. When the story begins in depicts rainsford and the rest of the people on his boat having a conversation. After they have their conversation everyone goes to sleep except for rainsford. When rainsford is still awake he spots something that is suspicious to him in the water. When he tries to spot what it is he leans over the rail and falls into the water. When he is in the water he panics for a bit trying to get his boat to stop but he can’t so he swims to a nearby island in order to try and survive. When he gets to the island he searches around for something to help him survive.
The understanding and applicability of post genocide reconciliation and transitional approaches has been a challenge over the years. The subject of which approach seems most applicable to one country or the other has been a debate, and in some cases, as these approaches have been a failure and resulted to the escalation of conflict in the process of providing solutions for restoration of peace. As the United Nations emphasised, in discussing the effectiveness of governance in restoring peace in conflict ridden countries, states that “[the] experience with post conflict reconstruction and recovery…for creating [and securing]…long term political stability… has changed over time as governments and external support organizations learned more about the complexities and challenges in crisis and post conflict countries” (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs; United Nations Development Programme, 2007, p. 8). In this same manner, Helena Cobban (2007) engages in an ethnographic study of a comparative analysis on the post genocide solutions applied in Rwanda, South Africa and Mozambique - restorative justice: truth and reconciliation process; prosecution-based approach/retributive
William Julius Wilson is a Sociologist who is currently a professor at the University of Harvard. He is a conflict theorist addressing the issue of race and poverty. Explanation of Theory Conflict Theory address how factors like class, race, ethnicity, gender, and age can all be connected to inequality when it comes to money, power, education, and social status. Wilson focused on the issue of race and poverty. Such as how white people have many advantages over people of color.
Throughout history, our world has constantly been bruised and battered by civil turmoil. Today, the civil war in Syria decimates the country; the Israeli and Palestinian conflict rages on; tens of thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan's ongoing civil war. It is not always easy to isolate what exactly ignites the flames of war, but, whenever possible, finding a workable, calm and satisfying solution to a potential uprising is preferable.
Introduction Society tends to view conflicts as incidents that have a negative impact on people and therefore tries to decrease how often they occur. In Conflicts as Property, Nils Christie questions this societal tendency by stating many ways in which conflicts are beneficial as a whole. He argues the importance of people taking ownership for their conflicts and being able to control them without third party interference. Summary In Conflicts as Property, Nils Christie’s main point is that victims should be the owner of their conflict and that in today’s society; third parties hold most of the power regarding conflicts.
Humanitarian crises and international politics goes hand in hand. One can cause the other, while the only way to fix the other is to rely on politics. This paper will highlight the cause of genocide, violent massacres and crisis, how to solve them, and key roles politicians and nations must take up wholeheartedly in order to make a difference. Personal and political reconciliation must occur in the parties involved ever want to have a mutual co existence.
Conflict Theory is a social and economic factor. It is seen as inequality in gender, race, crime and wealth. Conflict Theory was developed by the theorist Karl Marx, who believed that conflict theory is split into two groups: the wealthy and the poor. Marx labels the wealthy as those who control and the poor are labeled as those who are controlled by the government, law or other authority.
In a dispute, it's often easier to describe how others respond then to how we respond. Each of us has a predominant conflict style that we use to meet our own needs. By examining conflict styles and the consequences of those behaviors, we can gain a better understanding of the impact that our personal conflict style has on other people. With a better understanding, you then can make a conscious choice on how to respond to others in a conflict situation to help reduce work conflict and stress.
There are many was that people experience conflict throughout their day. This can include conflict in the work place, at home, or even on video games. All these opportunities to collide with conflict can make it difficult to determine what type of conflict is occurring, and reach the best possible solution to the problem. There are certain cues that can be seen when dealing with realistic, and nonrealistic conflict. These include then end goals related to the conflict, flexibility, and the interests of the parties involved within the conflict. Also, the appropriate response to a non-realistic conflict is to use force or coercion to resolve the issue. First realistic conflict produces different cues from nonrealistic, and these can be used in determining the type of conflict that is being dealt with.
Nice job on your post, but I do have a question which is: since law was created in conflict and natural order, who is to say that the law is right? Can the law be bended to fit whomsoever purposes mainly the wealthy verse the poor? To this learner I think this is where the birth of Conflict theory was born, because we all have different ideas of what is right or wrong, which can change based on the power that be, why is that?
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Throughout this course thus far we have generically discussed the various models of mediation(in particular facilitative),skills and tasks needed by a mediator to conduct a successful mediation. The facilitative approach we have been studying, via theory and in-class exercises has afford us some great insight into mediating into a variety of domestic conflicts from family to business disputes.However,there is a whole other subfield in mediation ,which we have not discussed and that is international mediation. International mediation also has a variety of forms. Cases for mediation can range from a conflict between two states, an ethnic conflict that, has bought violence within a particular state, or perhaps a business dispute between
The conflict theory approach emphasizes issues of inequality and change in relation to social class, money, race ethnicity and gender. The conflict theory pinpoints the belief that these social classifications are parasitic: only benefiting one group while negatively affecting another. In particular, the social conflict approach focuses on the struggles that lower-class people face in a world where the rich and powerful benefits at their expense. Persons of the lower-class are often disadvantaged, since they are not given a chance to move ahead and are always stuck at the bottom of the social ladder. Upper-class individuals are able to fully educate their children, and hence, their generation will always be rich and powerful. However, a weakness
The five antecedents of conflict are the “overlapping or unclear job boundaries, inadequate communication, unreasonable or unclear policies standards or rules, unreasonable deadlines or extreme time pressure, and competition for limited resources” (Kinicki A. Kreitner R.2008 p. 277).
Elections are a prominent feature of modern politics, an essential element of consolidated democracy. Elections function as the democratic tool that allow for peaceful transfer of governance within political systems as well as a tool for holding political elites accountable to their publics. Elections also give the citizens of a country the opportunity to exert an influence over the political system through their representatives governing the state (Przeworski, Stokes, and Manin 1999). According to Rapoport and Weinberg (2000) elections are important mechanism by which democracy manages conflict through nonviolent processes where ballots serve as a substitute for bullets. However, the reality is that most elections in Africa are full of violence. Electoral violence has been experienced in Kenya, Nigeria, Togo, Zimbabwe, and Ghana just to mention a few. Major forms of electoral violence in these countries include assassinations, riots, assaults, arson, looting, bombing and hijacking of electoral materials at gun point. These forms of electoral violence undermine the effectiveness and the transformational power of democracy. This project proposal is intended to focus on the role of political parties in electoral violence.