By Andrew S. Buchanan
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Thus an aspect of conflict resolution provides the challenge of delegitimizing negative stereotyping, and discarding beliefs and values that undermine positive positions. ’ 34 According to Montville the purpose of the walk through history is to elicit specific grievances and wounds of the groups or nations in conflict which have not been acknowledged by the side responsible for inflicting them. Only the victims know for certain which historic events sustain the sense of victimhood and these become cumulatively the agenda for healing.
However, [t]he absolute dichotomy between the presence and absence of worldwide agreement on values is false. In the world community, as in national societies, there is a broad spectrum of values and of degrees of consensus on them. A large measure of agreement on values does, of course, strengthen the cohesiveness of a community and the efficacy of its legal order. But it is not a question of all or nothing. A black-and-white contrast between a world in which common ideological values prevail and in which peace rests securely on one hand, and a world in which lawlessness and naked force rule, on the other, is out of place here.
65 Whilst diplomacy should ‘never condone the suppression of fundamental liberties’, and should ‘urge humane principles and use . . influence to promote justice,’ however, ‘the issue comes down to the limits of such efforts’66 – in short foreign policy should be based on national power and interest, rather than abstract moralistic principles or political crusades. 67 If we accept the premise that ‘[a]ny attempt to conceptualise the causes of war and the conditions for peace that starts from individual psychology rather than an analysis of the relations between nation-states is of questionable relevance,’68 we must also accept that governmental behaviour at the international level cannot be subjected to the same moral standards that are applied to ordinary human behaviour: Moral principles have their place in the heart of the individual in the shape of his own conduct, whether as a citizen or as a governmental official.