Problem-Solving for a World of Difference Resource Developments, Indigenous Interests in Land and Conflict Analysis
AbstractIn these times of cultural understanding and preference for diplomacy instead of violence when parties differ in view, alternative measures are sought in order to ease tensions and leave both parties in a win/win situation. Conflict Analysis is here suggested to be one such alternative in the settlement of disputes, particularly today in Australia between resource development organisations and Aboriginal interests in land. The article focuses on the need for more analysis on what parties desire, without creating animosity in the process, achievable through communication from both sides. Such attempts have been used globally to prevent hostilities of a larger scale. Thus perhaps in Australia's relative calm, Conflict Analysis would seem a cheaper and more amicable process in the settling of disputes. |