Historical Examples of Solving Conflicts with Violence
Historical Examples of Solving Conflicts with Violence
In most people’s opinion non- violence is the best way to solve a problem. The strange thing is that when the time comes to solve a certain problem, violence is used. Violence is not the best way to solve a problem. In this reflection the main topics are problems where violence is commonly present such as wars and in school, and for those problems there are nonviolent solutions such as using the method of A.R.C. (alternative resolution of conflicts), which includes negotiating.
Sarajevo instead of finding other ways to solve their problems they chose violence. Many civilians got hurt because of the shelling and also because the military wanted to make the government regret whatever decision they took. As a consequence of war, shelling, killing, darkness, and hunger continued in Sarajevo therefore civilians suffered.
Schindler’s List clearly shows the effects of World War II´s Holocaust. It also shows how people wouldn’t care to negotiate with people who were different from them and how they recurred to violence to solve their problems.
For thirty years families were separated because of the political conflicts between Russia and the Allies. As a result of this political conflict Russia built the Berlin Wall, which separated itself from the other three powers for thirty long years. The Berlin Wall finally fell in 1989 and no longer were these families disunited again but this occurred because the other countries protested non-violently against Russia asking and persisting for the fall of this wall. During the time that this wall was standing, people would get shot when they tried to cross to the eastern side. As a country that was loosing its people, violent actions were taken to solve the problem of immigrations such as building a wall and shooting those who would try to cross the wall.
Not only can violence be present in wars and among adults, but also violence is present among us. Every day there are more conflicts between students about arguments such as gays. These are discriminated because they look different and act different than other students, so people provoke them to act in a violent matter. Losers are another group of people who aren’t accepted by other groups because of their interests, so the other students who don’t like it reject them. Conflicts among teacher...