NCJ Number
124372
Date Published
1989
Length
62 pages
Annotation
The three public lectures contained in this monograph discuss conflict resolution, focusing on those conflicts most frequently mentioned in the United States, namely, the East-West, the North-South, and the Middle East.
Abstract
The lecture on the East-West conflict identifies shortcomings of the 1987 Institute for Peace solution to the East-West conflict, indicating that the proposal is seriously flawed in terms of arms control, yet portends an end to the Cold War. Introducing both conflict and conflict resolution theory, the lecture concludes by suggesting that each superpower develop according to its own inclinations, but that neither develop the idea that it is entitled to a missionary zeal nor to use economic power to conduct crusades and anticrusades to spread its patterns throughout the world. The lecture on the North-South conflict develops six themes relating to its solution: a diagnosis of the nature of the conflict; use of the triangular definition of conflict in terms of attitude and behavior as well as the intra/inter distinction; an approach of consciousness, mobilization, confrontation, struggle, and self-reliance; an elaboration of self-reliance; and an exploration of the noneconomic aspects of the conflict. The lecture on the Middle East conflict extracts three axioms from the past, using these as a guide to a possible solution: the inalienable right of both Arabs and Jews to live in the area; peace realized only by according equal rights and duties to both Arabs and Jews; and equal rights for both parties in both the structure and the process that leads to a viable solution. 37 backnotes.