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PEACE IS A DOING WORD

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LIVING PEACEFULLY IN A WORLD OF CONFLICT

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“Bring into God’s light those emotions, attitudes and prejudices in yourself which lie at the root of destructive conflict, acknowledging your need for forgiveness and grace.

In what ways are you involved in the work of reconciliation between individuals, groups and nations?”

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Conflict management styles

Importance of achieving goal

Collaborating

Both parties

win

Importance of relationship

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Conflict management styles

Importance of achieving goal

Collaborating

Both parties

win

Avoiding

One or both parties seek to suppress the conflict

Importance of relationship

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Conflict management styles

Importance of achieving goal

Collaborating

Both parties

win

Avoiding

One or both parties seek to suppress the conflict

Accommodating

One party yields the win to the other party

Importance of relationship

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Conflict management styles

Importance of achieving goal

Collaborating

Both parties

win

Avoiding

One or both parties seek to suppress the conflict

Competing

One party seeks to satisfy interests regardless of impact on other party

Accommodating

One party yields the win to the other party

Importance of relationship

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Conflict management styles

Importance of achieving goal

Collaborating

Both parties

win

Avoiding

One or both parties seek to suppress the conflict

Competing

One party seeks to satisfy interests regardless of impact on other party

Accommodating

One party yields the win to the other party

Compromising

Both parties win and give up something

Importance of relationship

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  • What are the potential advantages and disadvantages to each of these conflict approaches? Is there anything missing?
  • Have a think about your conflict approach in relation to different contexts you have experienced or can imagine experiencing. Picture a family argument; an online disagreement; witnessing someone being racially abused in public; a workplace disagreement with a manager.
  • What conflict tendency – compete, compromise, avoid, accommodate, collaborate – would you like to try out more of in your own life?

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LIVING PEACEFULLY IN A WORLD OF CONFLICT

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Violence is any behaviour, attitude, policy or condition that diminishes, dominates or destroys ourselves, other people and/or other living things.

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Violence can be physical, emotional, verbal, institutional, structural, cultural or spiritual.

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Peacemaking

finding ways to interrupt injustice without mirroring it.

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LIVING PEACEFULLY IN A WORLD OF CONFLICT