Conflict Management

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This paper analyzes two related articles, which discuss the use of community collaboratives in conflict management: W. Potapchuk's "Moving From Collaborative Processes To Collaborative Communities Building Our Agenda" and J.F. Weiss' "You Never Can Tell", both from Mediate.com. The author points out that both writers note that when people cannot see any similarities on a personal level, they tend to ignore the other person's dispute; however, Weiss's solution is for people to ignore who is presenting an argument and to focus on what the argument is. The paper concludes that this approach seems to be lacking in Potapchuk's focus because he is trying to solve problems basic to human nature instead of accepting these problems and finding a way for community collaboratives to be successful despite personal differences.

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"While Potapchuk does not consider the differences between community collaboratives, he does consider traits that unsuccessful collaboratives share. He notes that "unaddressed racial, cultural, gender, and class issues palpably beat just below the surface, hampering honest interaction and collaboration." He also describes how members bicker, how public institutions ignore the collaboratives, and how collaboratives compete against each other. One thing that is not clear from this description is whether Potapchuk is identifying the real problems or the symptoms of that problem."

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