Journal #4

Think about your own conflicts or conflicts that you are aware of in the world around you. If you think about them in terms of analysis what do you notice, that you might not see if you don't?

This is a hard question for me because there are so many conflicts and I don´t quiet know which one to choose because there is such a variety of topics. Some conflicts can be between roommates, between different college teams or subjects like that but there are also more important conflicts to think about like the conflict in Afghanistan, Somalia or Iraq.

I am sure that I am not aware of enough conflicts in this world but the ones like the one in Somalia or Afghanistan or in Israel are really important to me. Another conflict I am really interested in and aware of is the hunger conflict and water conflict. Moreover I am interested to learn more about the conflict between rich and poor people and more important to learn more about theses to help the poor escape poverty and crime. These are for me the most important conflicts I am aware of right now.

I can´t right analyze them yet but I think the problem is that we as the western world always want to change other countries and cultures by forcing them to adapt our believes and lifestyles, which is in my opinion not the right choice. We need to analyze their culture, nation and everything to see where to conflicts come from and be able to find a way to solve them. And by solving I don´t mean to put our opinions in their head. I more likely mean to find a way to help them understand our point of view and try to help them develop their own view which includes some of our thoughts or ideals but it always has to match with their culture and nation and adapted by their culture as well because our first goal as the western world should not be to put our believes and aims on their nation but to help them to adapt really important human rights and make them become some of their ideals as well without losing their believes.