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Buddhist Philosophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Conflict Resolution.

Tanabe, Juichiro
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2011-06-22
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Whitman, Jim R.
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Conflict resolution, Epistemology, Buddhism, Deep psychology, Individual agency, Conditioned mind, Unconditioned mind, Social/cultural orientations
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University of Bradford
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Department of Peace Studies
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2010
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The aim of this research is to expand the framework of contemporary conflict resolution by constructing a complementary relationship between Western epistemologies and a Buddhist epistemology. Despite its evolution and development through self-reflexivity and self-critique, contemporary conflict resolution established upon Western epistemologies has confined the understanding of human mind to social/cultural orientations and left a comprehensive and qualitative analysis of the potential of individual human mind underdeveloped. Buddhist epistemology, the central theme of which is to address human suffering that is mainly psychological and subjective, makes a critical analysis of human subjectivity in terms of how it can be become a root cause of suffering including conflict and how it can be addressed by gaining an insight into the social/cultural construction of human subjectivity. The argument of the thesis is that when a socially/culturally-oriented view of human mind and a deeper and more profound view of human mind are combined together, we can engage in a qualitatively richer and deeper analysis of the psychological and subjective dynamics of conflict resolution.
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