The best conflict resolution is prevention i.e. before being offended by a remark ask yourself is this an over-reaction on a simple comment where no offence is intended. Do not appease troublemakers, authoritarian people, or rogue regimes. Appeasement only makes them feel empowered to become more aggravated and violent, thus it instigates conflict. Do not surrender when you are acting or fighting in defence. Surrender will not resolve the conflict but allow the aggressors to ‘cut you up slowly’. Some conflicts, such as the ones in the Middle East will never be resolved, so long as profit driven foreign interference exists. Profitable, in this context, may be financial, lifestyle focused or political. Mysteriously, whenever the president of some superpower is running for re-election or some dictator is trying to re-assert his/her diminishing leader status, there usually seems to be a threat of war in the Middle East, the south China sea, or elsewhere, uniting their country under the banner of security, based on comfort in ‘the familiar’. This is traditionally backed up with some form of provocation, the likes of a missile launch or an incursion into another’s territory, making it appear more real. War profiteers may also be so-called ‘peace activist’ campaigners, the likes of the humble high school or university drop-out intellectual, ‘NGO angels’, or failed presidential candidates, all who have found a second calling for a comfortable taxpayer and charity funded expat lifestyle!
I wonder why NGO’s generally target free democratic countries, criticising their leadership’s mistakes and failures, while lacking the courage to protest against rouge regimes and their ruthless despotic leaders who, in violent breach of international law, commit genocide and other horrendous atrocities. Locking back at the 1970’s, when Western European anti-government campaigners and terrorist gangs such as the ‘Red Army Faction’ were financed by East Germany to try and destabilise the democratic West, it makes me think; are today’s rogue regimes supporting the often radical and biased ‘peace and human rights activists’, in an effort to create division and conflict in the free world, thus paving the road for their imperialistic ambitions?