Conflict Resolution: Towards Problem-Solving (1997)

FromConflict Resolution Towards Problem-Solving earliest times human societies, like those which preceded them, have been subject to rule by the relatively strong. In contemporary legal terms there have been ‘those who have a right to rule, and others who have an obligation to obey’. Feudal societies, then industrial societies, had structures that reflected these ‘we-they’ relationships based on relative powerPower.