Workshop 2: Conflict Transformation

Workshop 2: Conflict Transformation

1.  Form 3 groups:    Group 1:  Family/community conflict

    Group 2:  Conflict in the workplace

Group 3:  A Mindanao conflict / any global or national conflict

Workshop 2: Conflict Transformation

2.  Discussion (45 mins) a. Share your conflict experience on the category assigned to your group

b. Choose one conflict and answer the ff.:        b.1.  What is the conflict?        b.2. Causes & effects?        B.3. Conflict resolution processes employed?

3.  Prepare a role play.

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICT

• It is a sign that there is no one superior in the relationship

CONFLICT IS NATURALCONFLICT IS NATURAL

• Always part of any human condition

• It is how we respond or channel energy that we can take very destructive or constructive directions

• How we begin to understand and respond to what is presented to us as we live in our lives

• There is no good or bad, no true or good relationship without conflict

• The emergence of conflict in a certain relationship is a sign of dynamic relationship

CONFLICT IS AN ON-GOING PROCESSCONFLICT IS AN ON-GOING PROCESS

• Conflict is always present in any relationship

• As the relationship develops, conflict always takes shape in different forms.

• It is a good opportunity for learning and knowing others.

• A good opportunity for constantly improving relationship.

CONFLICT IS A DYNAMIC PROCESS

• Since conflict is a dynamic process, change is also dynamic.

• Our key task: to manage conflict and transform it to higher and better relationship.

• The key challenge: how to direct conflict towards a process of positive change.

• Conflict has only one definite direction: it initiates change.

CONFLICT IS POSITIVECONFLICT IS POSITIVE

• An essential propeller of change

• It is a necessary part of human relationship which makes human beings more humane.

• It encourages a human being to reflect and search for new directions, to examine or re-examine his/her relationship with others and with society.

• It always makes human being stronger and more prepared for living.

CONFLICT IS EMBEDDED IN ALL RELATIONSHIP

Present not only in human relationship.

It is embedded in all relationships. Since it is in every relationship, it makes the parties adjust to each other.

It is also present in all relations.

• Represents a comprehensive set of lenses for:

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

o and for intervening to promote peaceful change at those levels through non-violent mechanisms.

o describing the way conflict emerges from, evolves in, and brings about changes in the personal, relational, structural and cultural dimensions,

• envisions and responds to the ebb and flow of social conflict as life-giving opportunities for creating constructive change processes that reduce violence, increase justice in direct interaction and social structures, and respond to real-life problems in human relationships.

CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

1.Personal dimension• Refers to change effected in, and desired for

the individual• This involves emotional, perceptual, and

spiritual aspects of conflict

2.Relational dimension• Depicts the changes effected in, and desired

for the relationship• Here we take into consideration the areas

ofrelational affectivity and interdependence, and the expressive communicative and interactive aspects of conflict.

DIMENSIONS OF TRANSFORMATION

3. Structural Dimension • It highlights underlying causes of conflict,

and the patterns and changes it brings about in the social structures.

• At times understood as the “content” or “substance”

• Focus attention on the areas related to basic human needs, access to resources, and institutional patterns of decision-making

4. Cultural Dimension• Refers to the changes produced by conflict in the cultural patterns of a group, and the ways culture affects the development and handling conflict.

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