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Doctrine of understanding key to conflict resolution: police chief

MADURAI: Doctrine of understanding is more important for the idea of conflict resolution and a deeper sense of understanding of the source of the conflict is necessary to review the situation and broker peace, according to K. Nandabalan, Commissioner of Police.

Speaking at a seven-day workshop on ‘Peace and conflict resolution’ jointly organised by Institute of Peace Studies on Conflict Resolution of the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai and Society for Community Organisation Trust here on Sunday, he went nostalgic and quoted his own personal experiences as a police officer and how he handled the crisis and managed difficult situations in conflict zones.

Stating that his spiritual values helped him to overcome hard times, he spoke on the importance of non-governmental organisations and other members of civil society to be active in preventing conflicts.

Asghar Ali Engineer, Chairman, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, said that faith in truth and justice with utmost honesty and sincerity would resolve any conflict. Defining the various concepts of conflict resolution, he spoke on the conceptual role of ‘identity’.

He said that the experienced identity was important where the subjective experience of ‘who one is’ and ‘how one reacts’, makes the difference rather than a set of “objective” features such as gender, caste, colour and creed.

Primordial identities were emotional in nature whereas acquired identities were relative in terms of the interests on which it rested upon, he added.

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