2010년 2월 22일 월요일

Escalate/De-escalate conflict

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I've had a situation in which my actions had escalated a conflict. I do not remember exactly when, but I remember that 2 of my friends were fighting about who was right and who was wrong. I happened to be 'included' in between them without my will. I found my friends arguing quite funny and I started being sarcastic and making fun of them. Well, soon I was able to find out that the choice I made was a wrong thing to do because the next second, I was getting sucked into this whole fight and I could feel myself being intimidated. It eventually ended up in a massive conflict which lasted for a few days.

To think about it now, what I should have done in that situation was to chill down the fight between my friends and try to make peace by talking to both of them and figuring out what was wrong.

On the other hand, I've also had a situation in which my actions have peacefully solved a conflict. During a soccer game recently, one of my friends got tackled from behind and hurt himself badly. However, the referee did not call it a foul just because he didn't see the exact situation. Eventually my teammate and the ref got into a fight and the situation became really bad. What my instincts told me to do in this situation was to stick on the side of the teammate and fight together against the ref, but I suppressed that thought and decided to solve the conflict because really, it was dragging to much of time and I wanted to be on the side of 'justice'. So I talked to him and said to forget about it and he recovered his sanity.

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