Will They Always Hate Us?
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Middle East conflict and other long-running international disputes have so far proved incapable of resolution by war or traditional diplomacy. So are the parties fated always to hate each other? Or might there be another approach that could be worth trying?
David Edmonds explores new ideas that psychologists are testing which could offer a way of tackling seemingly intractable disputes. These include understanding the real importance of sacred sites and how to negotiate about them, how to achieve empathy with opponents and the importance of how different sides understand historical events and how these then lastingly shape how different groups view each other.
The programme also hears from those with direct experience of conflict resolution and negotiation to understand how they react to what the latest research has to say. These include Senator George Mitchell, who was famously involved in talks over both Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan Powell, author of "Talking with Terrorists".
Producer Simon Coates.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for downloading analysis from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | This week David Edmonds considers how far insights from the world of psychology |
| 0:07.0 | could help to resolve seemingly intractable conflicts |
| 0:10.0 | and he asks, will they always hate us. |
| 0:13.0 | How do you turn this |
| 0:15.0 | into this? |
| 0:19.0 | The agreement that has emerged |
| 0:21.0 | from the Northern Ireland peace talks opens the way for the people there to build a society based on enduring peace, justice and equality. |
| 0:31.0 | And how do you turn this? |
| 0:33.0 | Police have promised a massive presence on the streets of Oldham tonight to try to prevent |
| 0:37.2 | further violence at the height of last night's... |
| 0:39.8 | Into this. |
| 0:40.8 | Whenever I'm stuck at my work, ready always helps me and I help ready. |
| 0:46.5 | Whenever I'm stuck, she's always there. |
| 0:51.1 | When ever she's stuck, I'm there. |
| 0:51.0 | Conflicts can involve different nations and religions, different races and classes. |
| 0:56.0 | Some of them seem intractable. |
| 0:58.0 | The tensions and hatred seem depressingly permanent, |
| 1:01.0 | whether it's in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, or among |
| 1:03.6 | clashing groups in some English towns. But there's now a branch of social |
| 1:08.5 | psychology which offers the hope that group hatreds can be diminished and even overcome if different strategies are adopted. |
| 1:17.0 | And in this programme we're going to explore how they work and what results the new approaches can offer in tackling age-old conflicts. |
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