Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Civility in public discourse

In the wake of recent trends which include privatization of governmental services such as health and education, intensified competition, globalization of the economy, reduced real wages, drastic cutbacks in social welfare and the soaring unemployment rates; how is the community to capture its’ individuals? Social movements are possessed by the idyllic expanding consumer society and can help one discover new directives for future economic and social development. Imagine if civility could find its place in social movements.
An endless cycle of confrontations over difficult distributional and moral issues is produced in our increasingly diverse society founded on our different intents and interests. This “continuing confrontation is inevitable, the enormous destructiveness which commonly accompanies these confrontations is not. “Constructive confrontation” is an approach that harvesters an understanding of conflict processes, dispute resolution, and advocacy strategies to facilitate advancement of individual interests.

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