Conflict And Conflict Management

Conflict may be defined as a struggle or contest between people with opposing needs, ideas, beliefs, values, or goals. Conflict is inevitable; however, the results of conflict are not predetermined. Conflict might escalate and lead to nonproductive results, or conflict can be beneficially resolved and lead to quality final products. Therefore, learning to manage conflict is integral to a high-performance team. Although very few people go looking for conflict, more often than not, conflict results because of miscommunication between people with regard to their needs, ideas, beliefs, goals, or values. Conflict management is the principle that all conflicts cannot necessarily be resolved, but learning how to manage conflicts can decrease the odds

Resistance to change from likely vested interests; conflict is likely to arise over implementation. Implementation cannot be separated out as one isolated aspect of urban planning and change strategies. In treating conflict management as a form of deliberate change the problem of the value placed on conflict, conversely the value placed on its removal, needs to be addressed.

Urban planning should recognized crucial conflict characteristics: conflict is a powerful and ubiquitous social force; conflict is not necessarily totally destructive, and can in fact have beneficial effects; that the level and type of conflict can be regulated and managed; and that urban planning is closely intertwined with both conflict and conflict management. If urban planning was to overcome these deficiencies it needed to understand fully the concept of conflict and how conflict relates to urban planning and widen its understanding of conflict

Muslim traders from today’s Indonesia and Malaysia long predated the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century, and were responsible for the conversion to Islam of the inhabitants, and the formation of the Muslim Sultanates of Maguindanao and Sulu, among others, in the western part of the island. Spain subdued the northern island of Luzon and most of the “in-between” islands of the Visayas, converting most of the inhabitants to Catholicism, but never succeeded in controlling Mindanao. Only with the arrival of the Americans at the turn of the 20th century, and after the end of the Philippine-American War, was most of the island brought under central control, although hostility and conflict remained endemic. The Philippines was comparatively calm for a period after independence in 1946, but conflict flared up again in the late 1960s as growing numbers of Christians settled in Mindanao. Settlers arrived particularly from Central Luzon and Panay Island in the Visayas. The resettlement was fostered by deliberate policy of the central government in Manila, and eventually resulted in Mindanao having a Christian majority overall, with Muslim-majority areas concentrated in the central and southwestern