lectures Flashcards
- In discussing moral conflict, what do Pearce and Littlejohn mean by “incommensurate social works,” and how do incommensurate social worlds impede conflict resolution?
• Different ways of being, discussing things
In commensurate because they work together but not with other social worlds, hard to settle moral issues.
Example: respecting women
There exists a category of conflicts in which the cultural resources of the participants differ so much that neither provides a sufficient guide for how to resolve the conflict. In these conflicts between incommensurate social worlds, a minimum requirement of satisfactory performance includes an awareness of one’s own cultural resources, a willingness to move beyond them, and the ability to find ways of cooperatively dealing with the conflict that transcend the social worlds of the participants.
• moral values are embedded in clusters and have histories and their own logic, embedded moral orders are not negotiable, incommensurate language, inherent escalation.
- According to Pearce and Littlejohn, moral values are “embedded in clusters and have histories.” How does this interfere with resolving moral conflicts?
• Embedded in clusters moral orders are not negotiable.
-makes them more complicated, because you can’t untangle it, much harder to compromise, can’t separate it with clarity
- What general conflict management strategies does moral conflict tend to preclude?
• Compromise
- Dues discussed three “success stories” in which major conflicts were resolved, or at least reduced. What were they?
- Camp David accords
- start treaty
- enlibra principles
- Who initiated the negotiation effort that ultimately produced the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel?
• Sedat
- How did President Carter get both Sedat and Begin to reframe their negotiations to focus on the future of both countries?
• Reframed the conflict to the future: their grandchildren
-showed pics of grandchildren, met with them on different days, memorized names, reframed the issues
- What leader of the United States, and what leader of the Soviet Union agreed to attempt to negotiate at treaty to reduce the numbers of their nuclear arms?
Reagan and Gorbachev
- The START Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union was an example of what basic conflict management strategy?
• Fractionation
- What 2 governors, one liberal and one conservative joined together to develop the Enlibra Principles for deciding issues in conflicts concerning the environment?
• Governors Kitshaber and Leavitt tasked to draft common statement for Western Governors
-definite test question
- What are the Enlibra Principles?
• National standards/neighborhood solutions
• Collaboration, not polarization
• Results, not process
• Science for facts, process for priorities
• Markets before mandates
• Recognition of both benefits and costs
• Solutions transcend political boundaries
• Change a heart; change a nation
**a set of principles for governors to follow in resolving issues involving environmental issues
- After listing “7 Thruths” about major conflict (which we won’t ask you), Kenneth Cloke asks three important questions about learning to handle major conflicts. What are those questions?
- Can we become more skillful at addressing the systemic, contextual and environmental factors that trigger conflicts?
- Can we use conflict management principles pro-actively to reduce the inequalities, inequities and dysfunctions that generate systemic conflict?
- Can we redesign our social, economic, and political communities, institutions, processes and relationships to encourage more humane, compassionate, and collaborative outcomes?
- How does Kenneth Cloke define “evil”?
“not initially a grand thing, evil begins innocuously with a constriction of empathy and compassion—creating a small piece of evil.”
Expands, replacing
Empathy with antipathy
Love with hate
Trust with suspicion
Exalts: Negative attitudes, brings them into the open, domination of others
Assumes: We are good/others are not
- What does Cloke regard as the “deepest form of evil”?
injustice
- What are the 1st, 9th, & 10th steps in Cloke’s “10 Steps from Argument to dialogue”?
- 1.) Agree on ground rules
- 9.) Redesign institutions and systems to transcend conflicts at their source
- 10.) Get feedback, evaluate, learn, continue improving
- How does Cloke define: substantive change, transformational change, and transcendent change?
- Substantive change: occur when modifications are made in content, or things themselves.
- Transformational change: take place when alterations are made in the forms, processes, and ways change takes place.
- Transcendent change: happen when shifts take place in the hearts, spirits, attitudes, relationships, and the very being of the people who are touched by the change.
