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Introduction: Brazilian economist Olympio Barbanti talks about people's view of conflict in developing countries. Rather than seeing conflict as something to solve, many people try to escalate conflict to promote change.


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The Developing World and US Conflict Resolution Models
Olympio Barbanti
Faculty in the Department of International Relations at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Interviewed by
Julian Portilla
2003

For example, in developing countries, social theory is very influenced by some kind of Marxist approach, like in Latin America... together with a Marxist approach pose some limitations to the application to the conflict resolution approach to these same countries. People do not believe that conflicts can be resolved or they are not capable of sorting out their differences in a rational or formal way. In fact, they believe that you need to increase conflicts as a way of promoting a change in society.

 
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. -- Robert Lynd

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