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Affichage des articles du août, 2020

Mandela’s values ​​that set him above all

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Nelson Mandela remains to this day a role model for his life devoted to the struggle against apartheid and then to the reconciliation of the Rainbow nation. He was a man with a big heart, intelligent, wise, generous, honest, etc. Beyond all that, he embodied the person of value and principle on which he walked, which made him a man without limits who had the grandeur of a fight for Man. However, it is important to clarify that Mandela had several values ​​but in this article we will highlight 3 of his values. Firstly, the value that gave him more self-esteem was dignity, he valued human life more regardless of racial differences, and he had confidence in himself and what he did. Secondly, it was an ideal for a free and democratic society in where all people lived in harmony and with the same opportunities; he devoted his whole life in the struggle for the African people and he fought against white domination and against black domination; it proves how often he is honest, loyal and i...

Reflection on conflict transformation based on the little book of Conflict Transformation of Dr John Paul LEDERACH

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It is obvious that in our current world, we cannot live without having heard from a distance the word “conflict”; not to mention that most people no longer know how to do it, especially since it is an event or a problem that takes place in society. Before I read Dr Jean Paul LEDERACH's book, entitled "The Little Conflict Transformation Book ", I thought that to end a conflict, you just have to resolve it and everything will come back to order while forgetting that this same conflict may return in another form which may cause even more harm than the one last time. Now I have learned that in order to cope better with a problem or conflict, it is important to be able to turn it into an opportunity. And so, conflict resolution should no longer be part of our methods or approaches to be used when we are facing conflict in our community. The best approach to use is conflict transformation. Remember that change is a process, and to change better, we must develop a plan to fo...