INDIVIDUAL AND CONFLICT: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL CHARACTERS LEADING TO CONFLICT FORMATION AMONG THE PAKHTUNS OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PAKISTAN

Development of society and its inhabitants is negatively affected by prevailing conflicts. Although, enormous research and theoretical work regarding macro level factors leading to conflict formation is available, still, research is needed to investigate the problem at individual level. The current study aims at finding out personal characters resulting in conflict formation. For this cross sectional qualitative study, data were collected from participants through interview guide. As, totality of the personality characters of individual cannot be negative or anti-social, therefore, the current study aimed at finding out negatively interacting characters which frequently ends in conflict formation. The study found that, incongruous modes of interaction, egocentrism, bad attitude, negative personal tendencies, ideological differences, psychological problems, and personality disorder; were the most common characters of personality that not only had negative effects on cognitive abilities of individuals rather jolt negative energies in their behavior and led to conflict formation. Furthermore, the study suggests that many conflicting situations in our daily lives could be avoided if we leash these negative personality characters and keep focusing on reforming and redirecting our behavior. For this purpose, further research is needed to find out ways and techniques which could replace negative personality characters by positive ones to ensure peacebuilding.