Open AccessConflict Resolution: Towards Problem Solving
Author(s) -
John W. Burton
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
peace and conflict studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 6
ISSN - 1082-7307
DOI - 10.46743/1082-7307/1997.1183
Subject(s) - feudalism , obligation , subject (documents) , conflict resolution , resolution (logic) , power (physics) , political science , law , rule of law , law and economics , sociology , computer science , politics , artificial intelligence , physics , quantum mechanics , library science
From earliest times human societies, like those which proceeded them, have been subject to rule by the relatively strong. In contemporary legal terms there have been "those who have a right to rule, and others who have an obligation to obey." Feudal societies, then industrial societies, had structures that reflected these we-they relationships based on relative power.