Educational Interventions in Social Conflicts

Abstract

Social and inter-personal conflicts are almost everywhere. They can be over broad issues of public life like whether secularism or Hindutva should guide the policies of the state or the conflicts may have a deep structural character, like those within capitalism, where managers and owners need workers and the workers need the former, but one can increase their income only at the cost of the other. Every single organisation in the world has conflicts within it, for instance in dilemmas over whether a school should hire more teachers or more administrators. Conflicts are to be seen in politics, in the social structure and in every institution in the world. They come out in our everyday life as well, for instance, in whether we should have vegetables or chicken tonight for dinner.