Tag: Conflict

Conflict is essential to human life, whether between different aspects of oneself, between oneself and the environment, between different individuals or between different groups. It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it — the capacity to bear the tensions of doubt and of unsatisfied need and the willingness to hold judgement in suspense until finer and finer solutions can be discovered which integrate more and more the claims of both sides. It is the psychologist’s job to make possible the acceptance of such an idea so that the richness of the varieties of experience, whether within the unit of the single personality or in the wider unit of the group, can come to expression.

Nur durch Einbezug der psychischen Gesundheit in die Friedensarbeit lassen sich Gewaltspiralen langfristig durchbrechen und Stabilität fördern.

Aversion to conflict is aversion to relationship. On a social level we don’t simply live with those we personally know. We don’t only impact those who know our names. Dialogue is a precondition for society. And painful conflict is one of its crucial tests.

Jeder unwillkommene Konflikt hinterlässt Wunden in der Gemeinschaft. Es geht nicht um die Lösung des Konfliktes, sondern um die Heilung der Gemeinschaft.