In our training this week we have asked participants to think of case studies of real conflict that we could then use conflict analysis tools on. One that surfaced from a group looking at family conflicts was a family of four that included a mother, father and two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was rather lazy, did poorly in school and prone to trouble. The girl was a hard worker and good in school.
The father favored the boy giving him a nice cell phone (Samsung smartphone) and not making him work hard. The girl only got a GSM (simple Nokia) and had to wake at 4am to do chores. The participants seem to all be familiar with this case in some form or other.
We have only completed a simplified nested paradigm for looking at individuals, relationships and culture. I look forward to the mapping of actors and the conflict tree to see where the roots of this conflict lie.
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