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13. Conflict fractionation or creation of smaller issues out of complex issue.
On analysing these suggestions and practices, we find that they involve some short-term methods and many long-term methods. The first ones apply when conflicts are there and the second ones are meant for their prevention and creating an atmosphere for conflictfree world.
Almost all thinkers and religions have propounded observance of moral and ethical values for peaceful world. These values require control over the instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, ego and ambitions. The saints have stated that it is only the human being who has also the instincts of surrender and peace to control the above negative instincts. Thus, he can create a peaceful world also. The materialist view of life has to be re-modelled or re-conceptualised in the spiritual or ethical direction. This means feelings of equality of livingness in all, respect for life, compassion for all and the like. This has a motto: "to initiate a conflict is as sinful as to tolerate or not to oppose it.” Thus, pragmatically, the re-directional attitude has a capacity to develop one's latent potential non-violent power for resolution. The concept of redirection arises through the application of the theory of multi-dynamic vision.
With change in direction, grows the seven-pillared wisdom and liberalism, which enables one to subside one's negative instincts of self-interest desires and ambitions leading one to meet even the opponent for dialogues etc. for conflict resolution. In fact, all these processes do evolve from multi-dynamic vision principle.
The multi-dynamic vision makes one keen observer of the processes and effects, which lead one to decide the course of action in proper direction. This is the process of internal and external democratisation where conflicts of any nature are attempted to be resolved by the above processes.
The long-term suggestions for conflicts prevention and cure are also the resultant of multi-dynamic vision. They are dependent on various global, national or non-governmental agencies, which have anekāntic vision.
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