{"id":25286,"date":"2013-07-30T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25286"},"modified":"2013-07-30T13:36:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T13:36:54","slug":"of-dualities-contradictions-and-the-nonduality-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=25286","title":{"rendered":"Of dualities, contradictions and the nonduality II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; notes towards a pattern language of conflict and conflict resolution: bridging divides in Baghdad 2013, Netherlands 1888 and the Germanies 1961 ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be collecting examples of &#8220;dualities and the non-dual&#8221; here, because they give us a chance to consider the pattern that underlies &#8220;conflict and conflict resolution&#8221; and much else besides.  This post picks up on <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=24040\">an earlier post on the same topic<\/a>: I&#8217;ll begin with three tweets that came across my bows this last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First, a vivid glimpse of sectarianism in today&#8217;s Iraq:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>&quot;Two safe zones were set up west of Baghdad&#8230; where Sunni drivers can hand goods over to Shiite counterparts safely&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/ApOY8nAdRE\">http:\/\/t.co\/ApOY8nAdRE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Akiko Yoshioka (@Akiko_Yoshioka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Akiko_Yoshioka\/statuses\/362040229164617728\">July 30, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second: sectarianism in the Netherlands, 1888:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, who were not allowed to be buried together. Roermond, NL, 1888 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/cF9mCAnjGN\">pic.twitter.com\/cF9mCAnjGN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Historical Pictures (@HistoricalPics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoricalPics\/statuses\/360806850863706113\">July 26, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And last, unexpected but charming, the divided Berlin of 1961:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>East German soldier helping a boy cross the new Berlin Wall, to reunite with his family. 1961 <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/g6i8V28kKt\">pic.twitter.com\/g6i8V28kKt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Historical Pictures (@HistoricalPics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoricalPics\/statuses\/362102387881684994\">July 30, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious once you think about it &#8212; thought we don&#8217;t always remember, such is the mind&#8217;s propensity to distinguish, divide, and argue from just one half of the whole &#8212; that human nature embraces <em>both <\/em>conflict and conflict resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; notes towards a pattern language of conflict and conflict resolution: bridging divides in Baghdad 2013, Netherlands 1888 and the Germanies 1961 ] . I&#8217;ll be collecting examples of &#8220;dualities and the non-dual&#8221; here, because they give us a chance to consider the pattern that underlies &#8220;conflict and conflict resolution&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,871,232,526,497,146,334,873,45,753,840,750,626,533,446,819,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19th-century","category-871","category-20th-century","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-cold-war","category-europe","category-germany","category-iraq","category-islam","category-paradox","category-pattern-language","category-patterns","category-religion","category-shia","category-sunni","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25286"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25303,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25286\/revisions\/25303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}