Conflict resolution

Alana Goodman writes about Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the “father of Peace and Conflict Studies.”

Peace Studies is based on the premise that all conflicts can be resolved through peaceful, nonviolent means. It’s the height of moral relativism, holding that both sides have legitimate grievances and are rational, that both sides can and should make compromises, and that both sides have a responsibility to listen and consider each other’s arguments. Yes, even if the two sides are the Nazis and the Jews. Follow this argument to the end of its logical chain, and you get to Galtung’s repulsive idea that German anti-Semitism could have somehow been an understandable response to Jewish provocations.

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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/01/peace-studies-founder-and-anti-semitisc-ideas/#more-792487
 
The British National Health Service cancelled a workshop on conflict resolution that was scheduled to be led by an Israeli lecturer following protests of trade union members who objected to Israeli involvement.
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