Acknowledgement of Wrongs is Key to Conflict Transformation
Conflict can be conceived
as simply as social, political and/or even cognitive variable such as the
inability or/and unwillingness to mutually agree how to handle differences. But
it can be worse than this. It can be conceived as total collapse of structures.
It can also be damaged relations characterised by lack and/or lost trust,
communication etc. But, still it can degenerate into many forms of violence. In
this latter case, death and destruction are currencies. The best we can do in
this latter level of conflict is to acknowledge that certain levels of harm and
damage were caused as a result of such human incompatibilities and that such
losses were never natural. Why should it be so difficult for humanity to accept
that death occurred - that someone actually did not die but was killed and that
a human being fully loaded with not only feelings but also endowed with
humanity was actually reaped or maimed during a violent conflict? Is this not
the basic minimum in the initial processes of searching for ways out of violent
conflicts? Do we do this? If yes and no are the answers respectively then we
know exactly where we should retrace our steps to.
Acknowledgement of Wrongs is Key to Conflict Transformation
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
July 11, 2018
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