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Anekāntavāda And Conflict Resolution: (119)
Meredith & Mentel have stated that conflicts can be resolved in an effective way or ineffective way. The effective way involves all the methods stated earlier while ineffective resolution consists of forcing or penalisation and even dismissal of the conflict through violent means.
There are many methods to avoid major conflicts of any nature, most of which involve reconciliation and agreement with the opponent. Many thinkers and peace promoting agencies including M. 0. Orondo" have given thoughts over this problem. All of them have suggested the following methods:
1. Change of attitude towards ethical nature by the concerned groups or leaders.
2. Promotion of spiritual revival through evangelisation for peace and reconciliation.
3. Mutual talks among the conflicting party to resolve the conflicts. This requires conflict resolution workshops- one of which was organized by Orondo. This suggestion involves dialogues, integration, mutual understanding, agreement and multi-dimensional vision-all direct forms of anekāntavāda.
4. Promotion of democratic values and democracies to minimize the conflicts.
5. Training of crisis management to produce crisis managers for resolving conflicts.
6. Visits of various peace-aware groups to conflict-prone areas.
7. Continuous promotion of conflict resolution concepts through different kinds of media.
8. Introduction of courses on social ethnics in educational institutes.
9. Each country should have a ministry of peace-making and conflicts prevention along with UNO taking the lead of this direction.
10. Promotion of peace in distant conflict areas through dialogues. Establishment of peace model centers, organization of conflict workshops and regular review conferences to assess the progress.
11. Undertaking balanced development benefiting all groups throughout the nation and world involving removal of poverty.
12. Promotion of change in food habits like vegetarianism.
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