Open AccessRituals in Conflict Resolution
Author(s) -
A. V. Bilous
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1583-3984
pISSN - 2414-6633
DOI - 10.22151/politikon.19.2
Subject(s) - conflict resolution , contradiction , conviction , universalism , politics , negotiation , resolution (logic) , conflict resolution research , settlement (finance) , epistemology , conflict theories , perspective (graphical) , relativism , political science , sociology , conflict transformation , environmental ethics , social science , law , philosophy , artificial intelligence , world wide web , computer science , payment
While the essay will be mostly concentrated on the role of rituals in resolution of conflicts and promoting negotiations and the impact ritual theory can have on conflict resolution as a discipline, it will also try to address these general questions on substantial issues of conflict resolution development. The essay defends that the study of rituals can substantially deepen the understanding of conflict and conflict resolution in world politics. Therefore, the paper argues that the body of ritual helps to uncover practical ways of tackling the contradiction between universalism and relativism in conflict settlement/transformation. As a unique tool of social order restoration, ritual studies open a new perspective on conflict resolution and, in accordance with a deep conviction of an author? Which one?, give an opportunity to address the critic posed towards conflict resolution as a discipline.