Negotiation of Conflicts: Dialogue or Entente

The negotiation of conflicts should part from profound scientific analysis. This said, in the relations between Europe and Maghreb one may observe identity-based dynamics on both sides, new intercultural dynamics, and possible spaces for negotiation and conflict. The author indicates three vias for...

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Main Author: Rik Pinxten
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) 1998-12-01
Series:Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
Online Access:http://www.cidob.org/es/content/download/5491/54051/file/43-44pinxten.pdf
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Summary:The negotiation of conflicts should part from profound scientific analysis. This said, in the relations between Europe and Maghreb one may observe identity-based dynamics on both sides, new intercultural dynamics, and possible spaces for negotiation and conflict. The author indicates three vias for resolving conflicts: violent confrontation, dialogue, and entente. More than the other two, the latter via for conflict resolution takes into account the intercultural aspects and the principle of equality in the interaction. Entente is also characterized in three ways: first, for being minimalist -he willingness to submit to a common, and minimal, agreement; second, for being multilateral -no agent is superior to the other; and, third, for being based on scientific analysis -the interlocutors make use of reason and common sense to come to know and draw closer to the other. In this regard, the author specifies that there are two institutions which are fundamental in the negotiation of conflicts: the educative system, and the political structures of States and of those between States.
ISSN:1133-6595
2013-035X