Conflict, Resoultion & Peacemaking
Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking
LeeAnne Valentine
PSY/400
August 12, 2013
Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking The first question that is asked of human evolution is “what causes conflict?” According to Merriam-Webster (2013), conflict is “a struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or demands” (Merriam-Webster Online, 2013). Conflict happens in every environment, including the animal kingdom. Human struggle with conflict because of basic needs, competition, drives, and demands that equalizes to surviving in a harsh world. Sometimes conflict can lead to doing something good or bad. Decisions are made upon conflicts, in which sometimes it calls for resolution of a conflict, or fostering peacemaking of a conflict. Article in Review According to Strauss (2003), the behavior at Abu Gharib had jeopardized the war against terrorism. It was the Bush’s Administration’s approach to fighting terrorism that led to using torture and terror against the terrorists. Bush’s Administration used torture and abuse to justify the terrorist’s acts. The torture at Abu Ghraib, morally, makes it harder to condemn terrorism but at the same time helps fuels the terrorist’s logic in fighting the United States’ use of torture (Strauss, 2003). The resolution to conflict came in many forms, in which peacemaking became essential in ending the nightmares of Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib Abu Gharib is a detention facility where Saddam Hussein used the prison as a death house. He ordered prisoners to dungeons, and had prisoners go through electric shocks, sleep deprivation, and castration. Prisoner’s arms and hands were chopped off as punishment. Like Goebbels, Saddam’s son, Qusay was rumored to have ordered mass executions for his sick amusement. As the United States of America were reeling from post-9/11 hubris, President George W. Bush declared war against the Iraqis or jihadists by establishing prison in Iraq. Rather
LeeAnne Valentine
PSY/400
August 12, 2013
Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking The first question that is asked of human evolution is “what causes conflict?” According to Merriam-Webster (2013), conflict is “a struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or demands” (Merriam-Webster Online, 2013). Conflict happens in every environment, including the animal kingdom. Human struggle with conflict because of basic needs, competition, drives, and demands that equalizes to surviving in a harsh world. Sometimes conflict can lead to doing something good or bad. Decisions are made upon conflicts, in which sometimes it calls for resolution of a conflict, or fostering peacemaking of a conflict. Article in Review According to Strauss (2003), the behavior at Abu Gharib had jeopardized the war against terrorism. It was the Bush’s Administration’s approach to fighting terrorism that led to using torture and terror against the terrorists. Bush’s Administration used torture and abuse to justify the terrorist’s acts. The torture at Abu Ghraib, morally, makes it harder to condemn terrorism but at the same time helps fuels the terrorist’s logic in fighting the United States’ use of torture (Strauss, 2003). The resolution to conflict came in many forms, in which peacemaking became essential in ending the nightmares of Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib Abu Gharib is a detention facility where Saddam Hussein used the prison as a death house. He ordered prisoners to dungeons, and had prisoners go through electric shocks, sleep deprivation, and castration. Prisoner’s arms and hands were chopped off as punishment. Like Goebbels, Saddam’s son, Qusay was rumored to have ordered mass executions for his sick amusement. As the United States of America were reeling from post-9/11 hubris, President George W. Bush declared war against the Iraqis or jihadists by establishing prison in Iraq. Rather