PO111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Conflict Resolution, Behavioralism, Nationstates
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The activity in which conflicting interests struggle for advantage or dominance in making and execution of public policies dyck 2011. Critical thinker: are not just debaters or fault-finders. Critical thoughts are a response to arguments, positions, evidence, experience, and observations with considered opinions about a proper course of action. Helps us better understand how we organize ourselves in a social environment. How some individuals and groups benefit from society, while others do not. After all, politics allows for our collective survival, because with no formal organizing structure we would be left to fend for ourselves as individuals pitted against everyone else. Conflict resolution: process in domestic or international affairs where antagonism (either existing or potential) is sought to be reconciled through the use of mediation and negotiation. Conflict: differences in preferred outcomes among social groups. However elusive this goal may be, politics has always involved controversy as well as co- operation, debate as well as accord.
