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Spirit of Dialogue - Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict (Paperback, None Ed.)
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Spirit of Dialogue - Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict (Paperback, None Ed.)
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We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing
interests. A farmer's interest lies in preserving water for crops,
while an environmentalist's interest is in using that same water
for instream habitats. It's hard to see how these interests
intersect. But what if there was a different way to understand each
party's needs? Aaron T. Wolf has spent his career mediating such
conflicts, both in the U.S. and around the world. He quickly
learned that in negotiations, people are not automatons, programed
to defend their positions, but are driven by a complicated set of
dynamics--from how comfortable (or uncomfortable) the meeting room
is to their deepest senses of self. What approach or system of
understanding could possibly untangle all these complexities?
Wolf's answer may be surprising to Westerners who are accustomed to
separating religion from science, rationality from spirituality.
Wolf draws lessons from a diversity of faith traditions to
transform conflict. True listening, as practiced by Buddhist monks,
as opposed to the "active listening" advocated by many mediators,
can be the key to calming a colleague's anger. Alignment with an
energy beyond oneself, what Christians would call grace, can change
self-righteousness into community concern. Shifting the discussion
from one about interests to one about common values--both farmers
and environmentalists share the value of love of place--can be the
starting point for real dialogue. As a scientist, Wolf engages
religion not for the purpose of dogma but for the practical process
of transformation. Whether atheist or fundamentalist, Muslim or
Jewish, Quaker or Hindu, any reader involved in difficult dialogue
will find concrete steps towards a meeting of souls.
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