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Chaos to Community

Chaos to Community. A Model for Analysis of Multicultural Conflict Zachary Gabriel Green. Chaos or Community?. Before we begin… Think about yourself and one of the international conflicts that you are studying for this course.

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Chaos to Community

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  1. Chaos to Community A Model for Analysis of Multicultural Conflict Zachary Gabriel Green

  2. Chaos or Community? • Before we begin… • Think about yourself and one of the international conflicts that you are studying for this course. • Allow yourself to consider how the model and thinking apply to these situations

  3. Chaos to Community “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now… This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.” Martin Luther King, Jr .

  4. Chaos to Community …we must enter emptiness, a process of silence, reflection and letting go… of releasing our need to heal and convert others to our view of the world if we are to ever leave destructive chaos to embrace community… adapted from The Different Drum M. Scott Peck

  5. Stages of Community Making • Pseudocommunity • “faking it”-conflict avoidant-immediacy/pretense • Chaos • Efforts to heal & convert-open differences-fight for the norm(s) to prevail-tendency for (personal) attacks • Emptiness • “letting go” of feelings, assumptions, motives, control of outcome-lowering barriers to communication • Community • Authentic connection and concern-conflict resolving-differences are acknowledged and worked

  6. Post-Modern Chaos • NOT disorder, randomness and disarray but characterized by: • Underlying patterns that often require analysis to be revealed • Fractals, naturally occurring repetitions • Socio-technically, responses to status quo and prevailing power structure

  7. The Model • Divergence-convergence reflects orientation to issues • influenced by contact inside and outside one’s group • Presentation of the model is linear/progressive • as an ideal—not reality in practice • Process may be revealed in different ways • circular and multi-layered/individual or collective • Multiple “others” may be considered concurrently

  8. From Chaos to Community: A Process to Explore Leadership and Change Our history Our heritage Cultural chauvinism Cultural centrality “me” boundary permeability experience tolerance stereotypes Intercultural Conflict Multicultural Moments Multicultural Dialogue Intercultural Dialogue CHAOS Multicultural COMMUNITY education shared (superordinate) task boundary rigidity empathy adaptation Our struggle Our oppression Cultural denigration Cultural relativism “not me” E M P T I N E S S

  9. The Exercise • Think of a personal and international “me” and “not me” situation. • Consider how these situations are progressing (or not) in terms of the model. • Make one suggestion on how the situation could progress to reduce and/or change the conflict. • Share… and offer an example for the class…

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