Community Conflict Resolution Research Articles

Community Conflict Resolution Model in Climate Central Sulawesi Investment

This study is based on the view that Central Sulawesi is a region with increasingly rapid development of the Investment Climate. Not only positive impacts that always occur but also negative impacts. The presence of the state to provide security and comfort to investors is one thing that is needed, on the other hand the state must also be present to provide justice to citizens related to the condition of the region that is always explored by certain parties. The state that is present as a manifestation of the mediator between investors and citizens must present a balance. However, the balancing tool used is of course the law, which is manifested in the form of policy. policies often create inequality between investors and citizens, therefore the law of harmony is present in an innovative form as a manifestation that the law is not arbitrary and not a tool of power, and by the Law of Harmony considers that the Law is the Resultant of an agreement on the goals to be achieved. The desired legal study will be poured into the form of a policy pattern. The pattern born in this study is the antithesis of comparative studies.

Why Do Peasants Fight Rebels? The Cases of Civilian Defence Forces Against the FARC in Southern Tolima, Colombia

ABSTRACT Why do civilians engage in Civilian Defence Forces (CDFs) to confront insurgents if it is more dangerous than pacific resistance? This paper addresses two cases of peasant-centric CDFs in southern Tolima, Colombia. Based on secondary sources and interviews, a rich historical account of the CDFs is presented, allowing the application of process tracing for analysis. A framework to explain CDFs, recognising the interweaving of local security dilemmas and the macro-cleavage of the civil war, is proposed. Three determinants were found: previous participation of civilians in organised violence, legitimation of violent responses and the cooptation of community conflict resolution institutions.

Local Wisdom of the Paser Community in the New Capital City Nusantara (IKN) as an Alternative to Traditional Community Conflict Resolution

Local Wisdom of the Paser Community in the New Capital City Nusantara (IKN) as an Alternative to Traditional Community Conflict Resolution

Enhancing Community Conflict Resolution Skills: A Training Needs Assesment for Lupon Tagapamayapa

This research aimed to determine the training needs of the Lupon Tagapamayapa, operating under the Barangay Justice System, as perceived by constituents from selected barangays in the City of Ozamiz. Specifically, the study focused on the areas of conciliation efforts to reconcile parties, enforcement of rules, and proper application of legal procedures. A total of 35 constituents participated in the study, and data were gathered using an adapted survey questionnaire. The findings of the study revealed the training needs of the Lupon Tagapamayapa in handling community disputes. By fulfilling this objective, the study aimed to contribute to the development of training programs that would benefit the Lupon Tagapamayapa in four barangays of Ozamiz City through community extension programs. The results indicated that the Lupon Tagapamayapa in the four barangays of Ozamiz City scored very low in the areas of conciliation efforts to reconcile parties, enforcement of rules, and proper application of legal procedures. Furthermore, age, gender, and civil status were found to have a significant impact on the conciliation process to reconcile parties. Based on the findings, the researchers recommended specific areas of training that could be beneficial for the Lupon Tagapamayapa. These areas include conflict resolution, communication skills, legal knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and problem-solving skills. It is important for them to receive training in various techniques and strategies for resolving disputes and maintaining peaceful community relations. By addressing these training needs, the Lupon Tagapamayapa can enhance their effectiveness in carrying out their roles within the Barangay Justice System. It is hoped that this research will serve as a foundation for the development and implementation of targeted training programs, ultimately leading to improved conflict resolution and strengthened community relations in the barangays of Ozamiz City.

Crisis Handling and Conflict Resolution in Papuan and Local Communities in Demonstration Cases Commemorating the 2019 New York Agreement

Conflicts and crises are situations that cannot be predicted, can come at any time, and cannot be avoided, so crises management actions and conflict resolution are needed from demonstration conflicts to commemorate the New York Agreement in August 2019 in Malang City. The situation that occurs is a government crisis situation that requires conflict resolution and crisis management by Malang City so that crises and conflicts can be muted so that they do not continue. The research to see how Malang City handles this crisis and conflict resolution uses a constructivist paradigm with a qualitative research type. This study aims to find strategies to reduce crises and reduce ongoing conflicts. The method of data collection carried out in this study was an interview with the Public Relations of Malang City Government, supported by data collection, which was carried out through documentation. The Apologia theory and the conflict theory used in this study show that Malang City uses the deny strategy, conciliation strategy, transcendence strategy, and bolstering strategy. Malang City Government also conducts negotiations and acts with the Papuan people who live in Malang, so the strategies used are conflict resolution and crisis management strategies that produce win-win solutions so that conflicts are reduced and not prolonged.

Corporate social responsibility of multinational oil companies and conflict resolution in communities of niger delta region, nigeria: the role of the federal government

The emergence of oil exploration in commercial quantity in the Niger Delta region in 1956 came with great excitement and huge hopes for rapid development and accelerated civilization in communities, in the region. Although most multinational oil companies (MNOCs) have found the Niger Delta a fertile ground for business, the region remains backwards, poor and underdeveloped. The host communities in the region represent a sordid tale of its squalor and underdevelopment in centre of its tremendous wealth, which include deforestation, noise pollution and other ecological damages, which has presented serious humanitarian challenges with implications for security, development, human right, social justice and poverty. To address these issues, the MNOCs have engaged in some programmes intended to benefit the oil bearing communities in the area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). This paper is focused on the role of the federal government in regulating the activities of the MNOCs with regards to CSR in the development of communities in the region and its contributions to conflict resolution.

Government and Community Conflict Resolution in Gold Mining Areas without Permission of Bungo District, Jambi Province

Unlicensed Gold Mining in Bungo District caused prolonged conflict between the government and the community. This research is intended to analyze and describe the conflict resolution between the government and the community in the Unlicensed Gold Mining Area in Bungo District. In conducting research the Galtung Conflict Resolution theory is used with qualitative descriptive methods and Milles and Huberman data analysis techniques. The results showed that the process of resolving conflicts of gold mining without permission between the government and the community in Bungo District was carried out in several stages, namely: 1. Peacekeeping at this stage did not provide a deterrent effect for illegal gold miners, this is because during a joint operation of the TNI-POLRI and SatPOLPP occurred , gold miners have already escaped, 2. Peacemaking at this stage the Regional Government has coordinated with Rio or the village head together with the community to find solutions to the PETI problem. The solution offered by the community is the determination of a people's mining area (WPR), 3. Peacebuilding Bungo regency Regional Government through an integrated team to supervise the implementation of the PETI problem in its implementation is still constrained by social factors where the existence of changes in livelihoods that occur from generation to generation demanded on economic needs, and political factors in which there is a pattern of relations between law enforcement officials and cukong or people who facilitate gold mining without permission. To respond to the PETI problem in Bungo Regency: 1). The Bungo District Government needs to crack down on gold miners without permission, 2). Outreach will take place on the impacts of gold mining without permission, 3). Need to make a Regional Regulation (PERDA) in the management of community mining.

Interactive theatre for community conflict resolution and transformation: the Oye-Ekiti Forum Theatre Workshop in perspective

The violent conflicts between the students of Federal University Oye- Ekiti (FUOYE) and their host community, Oye-Ekiti and other neighbouring communities where students reside - Ayegbaju-Ekiti, Ilupeju-Ekiti, Itapa and Ikole-Ekiti, as witnessed in recent times have been of a great concern to all and sundry. Interestingly, the viability of drama or theatre as a conflict transformation and resolution tool has continued to gain ground since the twentieth century. It is against the backdrop of using drama for conflict resolution (DCT), therefore, that this paper argues that forum theatre (FT) is an artistic methodology for participatory citizenship that creates a process of collective reflection to produce solutions to community conflicts. The study is theoretically hinged on Mezirow’s transformative learning theory. The theory explains the change process that transforms the human frames of reference to explain Boal’s FT techniques. The techniques give the ordinary people the opportunity to be part of their problems and to find ways to resolve them by themselves. The study adopts qualitative approach, using forum theatre workshop and participant observation in its data gathering and descriptive approach in its data presentation and analysis. The findings revealed that interactive/participatory theatre which forum theatre is a component of possesses the potency for communities’ conflict transformation and resolution when properly applied. The study, therefore, recommends that theatre practitioners and scholars should leverage on interactive/participatory theatre as a tool for projecting good and exemplary governance
 Keywords: FT, Transformative learning theory, Community participation, FUOYE, DCT

Постановка завдання експериментального дослідження з організаційного забезпечення взаємодії інституцій щодо попередження та вирішення конфліктів в громадах

В статті показано що сьогодні існують передумови формування методологічної бази та практичних рекомендацій з окремих питань комплексного завдання з організаційного забезпечення взаємодії інституцій щодо попередження та вирішення конфліктів в громадах. Розглянуто практику використання принципу «знизу-догори» стосовно організаційного забезпечення взаємодії інституцій щодо попередження та вирішення конфліктів в громадах. 
 Визначено, що для забезпечення сталості у вирішенні конфліктів в громадах нині існує нагальна потреба у формуванні сталих підходів на локальному рівні: формування регіональних мереж аналітиків конфліктів та посередників у їх вирішенні на регіональному рівні; розробка сучасної інформаційні системи для аналізу, збору та висвітлення інформації про стан трансформації існуючих конфліктів. . 
 Встановлено, що система моніторингу, оцінювання та аналізу конфліктів в громадах повинна за структурою відповідати зовнішнім функціям, функціям окремих виконавців та організованому циклу роботи з конфліктом. Визначена мета та завдання експериментальних досліджень з організаційного забезпечення взаємодії інституцій щодо попередження та вирішення конфліктів в громадах. Розглянуто основні засади, завдання та складові впровадження експерименту зі створення геоінформаційної системи моніторингу, аналізу, оцінки та вирішення конфліктів в громадах.

Representation of Socio-Economic Activities and Conflict in Traditional Oral Narratives of the Tharaka People in Kenya.

This study looks at oral narratives collected from the Tharaka people who live on the eastern region of Kenya, in Tharaka Nithi County. The Tharaka people were from time immemorial pastoralists and peasant farmers, who often had conflicts with the neighboring communities and amongst themselves. This background was often reflected in their oral literature and this is what this research pays attention to. My thesis in this paper will be that oral literature in any community acts as a memory reservoir for the community. The research explores how oral narratives help to represent the society’s economic activities and in re-narrating and configuring the types of conflict that the community experienced in the past. The narratives were collected through identifying expert oral narrators and recording oral narratives from them. Narratives were purposively sampled to get a population of narratives enough for the analysis done in this paper. The study concludes that preservation of such genres helps in not just representation of the economic activities of a community but they also help in preserving the community’s past experiences, specifically, the history of conflict and conflict resolution in pre-literate communities in Africa.

Deliberation and governance in Chinese middle-class neighborhoods

AbstractThis paper examines the mechanisms of deliberation and conflict resolution in Chinese urban middle-class residential communities. Along with the rise of private home ownership and urban middle-class residential estates, disputes and conflicts have risen between the residents, resident self-elected organization (homeowner associations), real estate developer and property management companies, and the local government. Through the lens of deliberation in middle-class neighborhoods, this paper analyzes (1) how and to what extent deliberation is introduced and employed as an instrumental tool by the local government to achieve their goal of maintaining social stability. (2) In what ways and to what extent deliberation has served as part of governance strategies. And (3) whether and how the state and non-state actors interact with each other during this process to produce more democratic governance under the Party-state's authoritarian rule. This paper adopts a systemic approach to examine authoritarian deliberation as a neighborhood governance strategy. The findings suggest that (1) deliberation has become an instrumental tool for conflict resolution introduced by the local government to middle-class neighborhoods. Residents’ Committees, on behalf of the state, has become key coordinator and mediator during the deliberation process. (2) The systemic approach of authoritarian deliberation includes a mix of deliberative elements and other features of political culture, traditions, strategies, and institutions. The dynamic interactions between deliberation and authoritarianism, between deliberative and non-deliberative features, and between formal deliberative meetings and informal deliberative talks all contribute to a functional deliberative system.

The Role of Experts and Scholars in Community Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Analysis of Two Cases in China

AbstractIn this article, I draw from two case studies to explore the role of experts and scholars (ES), as a special third party, in community conflict resolution in contemporary China. Findings include that local ES are more likely to play the roles as leaders, organizers of farmers, and as agents of government. Nonlocal ES are more likely to play the roles as information providers and as pure self‐interest pursuers. This study also reveals that, although their knowledge and information are important, knowledge and information are only preconditions for ES's participation. Their social capital–rather than the knowledge and information they possess–differentiates the effectiveness of their participation in governance and the facilitation of community conflict resolution. Local ES with high social capital are more effective in governance and facilitating community conflict resolution than nonlocal ES without high social capital.

The Sense of a Better Ending: Legal Pluralism and Performative Jurisprudence inAtanarjuat the Fast Runner

This article argues that Igloolik Isuma’s first feature length film, Atanarjuat the Fast Runner, performs a meaningful reading of traditional Inuit legal systems, and puts time-honoured notions of customary law and Inuit social governance into practice. The process of conflict resolution is carefully depicted in the film, which is attentive to the processes of jurisprudence and to a range of possible outcomes. The movement toward a communal justice is shown in an elaborate, carefully detailed, step-by-step process (that still remains unobtrusive, and can be “missed” by some viewers). The film is formal and deliberate, and proceeds at a pace that enables the clear articulation of a specifically Inuit legal culture; it shows Inuit legal practitioners operating in ways that reveal Inuit legal principles in action. In restaging and recontextualizing a well-known narrative from Inuit oral tradition, Atanarjuat makes these local traditions of jurisprudence visible and accessible by relating them in modern form. The film does not leave these traditions and performative systems intact and in the past, however, but updates them for a contemporary audience and in dialogical relation to broader systems of contemporary justice in Canada. In this way Atanarjuat demonstrates Inuit legal systems, in practice, as being flexible, adaptable, and capable of being updated; it shows them struggling to maintain order and continuity in the face of violence and dispossession. This article suggests that Atanarjuat the Fast Runner effectively models performative jurisprudence and the interpretive nature of dialogical governance, and provides one situated, appropriate, culturally sensitive resource and model for contemporary conflict resolution and community governance in Inuit communities today.

Sudan’s North-South Conflict and Civil War

Purpose: Sudan has been at war with itself following a conflict that has “consumed the country of 34 of its 45 years of independence and remains the only constant factor in a land whose population has repeatedly been devastated. The study sought to establish the Sudan North –South conflict and civil war. Methodology: The research was purely qualitative. Desktop literature review was conducted. Critical analysis of the literature was conducted. Findings: The study found out that the war in Sudan was caused by both economic and non-economic motives. It can be noted from this study that indeed, that war is caused by many factors. However, the most argued about cause of war is the economic agenda. For example, this study hypothetically argues that the economic agenda was a main cause of war in South Sudan. To begin with, the Government of Sudan was interested in the South due to the numerous oil deposits that are located there. That’s why, as observed by Prendergast, the Government of Sudan used helicopters and gunships to displace the southerners from oil rich areas. Consequently, any move towards self-determination would be uneconomical for the Government of Sudan. In addition, the Sudan war can also be described as a war of visitors as various Governments supported the two warring parties. Unique Contributions to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study the study strives to promote academic qualifications and the building of capacities, for an informed academic exchange, intercultural learning and cooperation among researchers in the appropriate academic specializations under which Sudan’s north-south conflict would be best studied and discussed. The study is envisaged as being useful for policy inputs for future relief situations and/or improving the quality of the much needed ‘raw material’ for sustainable conflict management and/or resolution in countries or communities that experience violent conflict situations, which often also demand for humanitarian aid interventions.

Juventudes rurales, conflicto generacional y políticas sociales

Este artículo presenta los resultados de un proceso de investigación en un espacio semirrural donde se evidenciaron cotidianamente situaciones de conflictividad entre generaciones jóvenes y adultas en el espacio público. Estos conflictos, condicionados por aspectos sociales-culturales, políticos y económicos, repercutieron significativamente en las posibilidades y proyectos de los sujetos sociales implicados. En este marco, nos propusimos conocer los modos de relación intergeneracional para aportar al diseño de políticas sociales que promuevan procesos colectivos de resolución de conflictos comunitarios. Desde una metodología cualitativa, específicamente la investigación acción, accedimos a diversas experiencias y prácticas que nos permitieron arribar a una serie de aspectos relativos al conflicto en el espacio público y algunas claves a tener cuenta para el diseño de políticas sociales.

Inter Personal Conflict Resolution Methods on Case of Land in SemadaWerda, South Gonder Ethiopia

The study is about traditional interpersonal conflict resolution methods in the case of land in Arga and Asherakebele 16 in Simada Worda in the local community conflict resolution system was seen in this research study. Simadaworda Arga and Asherakebele the respondents of this research activity, from the total household 75 was selected, from those household 45 males and 30 females was selected based on sampling point. From sampling fighter 25 was selected, from those male 17 female 8, official experts was 24, from those 16 male and 8 female. From total respondent were selected 124, from those 78 males and 46 female. Most of the respondents result indicated that conflict arising by using inheritance problems from males 24.3% (19) and females 19.56% % (9), then problem related to boundary conflicts 34.6% (27 male and 16 female).

Roles of scholars in environmental community conflict resolution

Purpose– This study aims to investigate scholars’ roles in resolving environmental community conflict, as environmental community conflict is becoming an increasingly serious problem in contemporary China, and it explored the underlying factors and mechanisms that influence successful conflict resolution.Design/methodology/approach– Based on a combination of three types of sources – interviews, participant observation and existing literature, the study compared and contrasted 35 cases through a two-stage study project with 25 environmental community conflict cases in the first stage and ten non-environmental cases in the second.Findings– Results indicate that scholars serve seven roles in community conflict resolution: identification persons for potential sources of community conflict and supporters for the people who evaluate conflict problems before attempting to solve them; advisers for conflict protagonists; leaders of many knowledge-related activities; organizers of entrepreneurial activities for other community members; information brokers between community members and other stakeholders; representatives of the government, firms, community members and other stakeholders; and self-interested participants. While scholars’ participation is important for resolving community conflict, their actions are often not effective. Successful community conflict resolution involving scholars must satisfy eight underlying factors: local scholars’ sustained participation; high capacity; improvement on the organizational level of community members; emphasis on high efficiency knowledge and information transmission; effective finding and use of the community’s social capital; continual optimization on their action strategies; obtainability of some benefits; and non-local scholars’ sustained external support through social capital. The more closely these rules are followed, the more successful scholars’ participation in community conflict resolution will be.Originality/value– The findings have practical implications for improving the effectiveness of scholars’ participation in community conflict resolution in contemporary China and even in other countries.

The Media as a Judicial and Police Resource

This article examines how media reports of police court trials played an important discursive role in the workings of summary justice and the emergence of the policed society in Scotland in the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the dominant messages that trial coverage conveyed were laden with middle-class social and cultural assumptions concerning the accessibility, usefulness and fairness of the courts, and the character and guilt of the accused. Above all, the reports spoke to the intrinsic value of lay magistrates as paternal agents of community conflict resolution and police courts and, more subtly, the police as firm but trustworthy levers of urban discipline.

Legislative Theatre: Art for Community Conflict Resolution. From Desires to Laws

Aquest estudi mante que, com a metodologia artistica per a la ciutadania activa, el teatre legislatiu crea un proces de reflexio col·lectiva que genera solucions per als conflictes comunitaris. Boal va utilitzar aquesta eina de democracia transitiva per concebre propostes legals a favor de grups marginalitzats. El sistema legal de Brasil va aprovar tretze d’aquestes propostes. L’analisi d’un taller de Teatre Legislatiu que es va fer a Espanya amb la metodologia de Boal va permetre identificar alguns elements interessants, pero tambe les limitacions que presenta aquesta eina. Alguns aspectes tenen una gran importancia, com ara la ideologia de l’audiencia, l’abast de les propostes legals i el paper del bromista. Tambe s’hi discuteixen altres elements condicionants i aspectes positius.

Discovering the Role(s) of a Drama Researcher

This article explores a researcher's experience in a drama-based project that focused on community building and conflict resolution strategies within an elementary school setting. The researcher questions the nature, place, role and expectations of a researcher/observer. In re-examining and reflecting on her field notes she realizes how her situation as a researcher holds parallels to the role of a bystander in bullying situations. Through literature on bullying, drama education, Shakespeare, as well as autobiographical reflections, the article shares a context that sheds light on the complexity of being a researcher.