Feb 17th, 2022: What Happened to The Art Conflict Resolution?

Any leader would know some fundamental approaches while dealing with conflicts. Somehow these steps have been either avoided or denied by the current leadership of our federal governments. Our leaders would prefer calling people names and using accusatory language while dealing with those who disagree with them. Now they call for more power to deal with these folks by force. It is a dangerous and slippery approach for any leader of the free world to take.

Let us revisit some of these steps.

  1. Talk with the other person(s). These are Canadians who love this country.
  2. Focus on behavior and events. Acknowledge their frustration. That is why they came to Ottawa.
  3. Listen carefully. I am not sure they know what this means. Our PM loves to hear his own voice.
  4. Identify points of agreement and disagreement. There is always more than one stand in any issue.
  5. Prioritize the areas of conflict. Why full vaccinated truckers become the issue when many scientists seem to conclude that the impact of unvaccinated truckers is not that severe?
  6. Develop a plan to work on each conflict. The protestors keep asking these leaders for their plan to remove all restrictions due to the pandemic. They get no answer.
  7. Follow through on your plan. Well, our leaders have none. They might be following some other plans.
  8. Build on your success. How can there be success when there is no dialogue. We need leaders who are humble and have a serving heart. We don't need leaders who are full of themselves and abuse their power. We live in a country where we are assumed to be guilty before we have a day in court.

What do we expect? When God is absent, evil has its day.
 
Proverbs 8: 13
"The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate."

Ephesians 6: 11
"Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil."

 

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