What is conflict SALTO Cultural Diversity

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What is conflict? SALTO Cultural Diversity
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What is conflict?

• some of you live in a context, where conflict
  manifested itself in the most violent form
• some of you live in a world, where war is
  projected only through the media, but experience
  conflicts in your organisations
• many of you experience conflicts within
  yourself, when your personal values clash with
  the environment you live in

CAN CONFLICT BE SEEN AS A NATURAL PROCESS?
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Conflict can be defined negatively

• A fight or a struggle
• A disagreement between people with different
  ideas or beliefs
• A clash of ideas, interests, behaviours or two
  or more individuals or groups

BUT ALSO
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Conflict can be defined positively

• An honest confrontation that honours diversity,
  creates environments where differences can be
  expressed.
• An integral dynamic in the growth and
  development of organisms and groups.

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Conflict as a natural process
Conflict can also be defined as a natural
interaction between two individuals and/or groups
with different values, interests or needs, which
changes over the time.
CAN BE CONFLICT A POTENTIAL OF LEARNING AND
GROWTH?
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What does conflict mean for you?

• When thinking of conflict as a natural process,
  what does that mean for you personally?
• What is conflict in the context you live in?
• What is conflict in the context of your youth
  organisation?

WHAT CAN YOU LEARN FROM IT?
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Possible types of conflict

• Conflicts occur at several levels
• inter-, intra- personal
• cultural, ethnic, religious, socio-economic,
  political, class, etc.
• community, group, organisational
• gender, homosexual/heterosexual, generational,
  minority/ majority
• civil, local, national, regional, international
• military, armed, violent

What types are relevant to you/ your organisation?
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How can we deal with conflict?
Introduction to conflict transformation - A
process by which a conflict is changed/transformed
in a creative way so that it is no longer
destructive and becomes constructive - A process
that allows us (young people) to deal responsibly
with conflicts that arise in our environment

What does it really mean? conflict transformation
IS NOT conflict management, solving, prevention,
avoidance
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