Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / November 13, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Mar. 2011
A dispute is a quarrel, a fight, or an argument that arises between two or more individuals, organizations, or animals. Something that can be an element, or an issue confronts them and leads them to fight for it, many times having use of weapons and tools that can cause physical damage..
Quarrel, fight, that arises between two or more people, organizations, animals
That is, the dispute is a situation in which two or more individuals, or failing that, different groups, who present opposing interests, enter a scenario of confrontation, mutual opposition, with the clear mission to neutralize or eliminate the party considered rival. The aforementioned dispute or confrontation can be physical or through words and arguments.
Opposing interests that can be settled by word or physical
In disputes there will always be at least two stakeholders, whether group or individual, who confront, argue, because they present antagonistic interests.
Disputes are in the DNA of the human being but also of many animals that face in competitions for various reasons, such as being a
territory, food, romantic relationships, competence labor, political, religious, among others.Factors and grounds for disputes
exist factors cultural, behavioral and structural that influence and influence the development of disputes, while the People can assume different reactions to them, accept them, deny them or avoid them, among other
When the dispute occurs within the framework of ideas and opinions, each party will try to show its vision and position on an issue, trying to convince the public.
Now, this discussion can be on good or bad terms.
In the first case, the idea of listening to each other prevails, even in differences, and trying to reach a position complementary, while in the second case the proposal is to impose on the other what he believes without giving space to differences.
The confrontations, disputes, between nations have been a constant through the centuries, many even were very famous for the object of dispute, for their protagonists and for the consequences they knew let.
Most of these served to set the territorial limits of a place or the form of government
There have been countless disputes of this type and tenor, among the longest, most violent and which, even to this day, is still in force. Palestinians and Israelis for the territory known as the Gaza Strip and that has been confronting them on harsh and cruel terms for a long time weather.
Always, a dispute situation will generate problems, both in those directly involved and in those individuals close to some of the opposing positions.
The individuals, being social animals, present the tendencies of competition and cooperation observable in social animals, therefore, is that there are biological and psychological motivations for the violence; Most of the time a dispute comes from an emotion that was overwhelmed by some concrete action.
This is not to say that a dispute always involves violence and aggressiveness and cannot be kept calm. exchange ideas, but the truth is that violence participates and much more when the refusal to change position becomes constant.
Disputes can arise from countless situations, however, there are some causes considered traditional because they always unleash a dispute between different interests, such as: different needs, desires, differences regarding the strategy to follow in a conflict, differences in terms of values, lack of agreement regarding the distribution of resources and different criteria when making a decision about something.
Typical reactions
Faced with a dispute, the most varied range of reactions can develop, among the most common are the following: assertiveness (the person tries to satisfy her own interests), cooperativism (the individual tries to satisfy the other person), denial (Acknowledgment of the dispute is avoided) competition (You will seek to achieve what you want by asserting the objectives), accommodation (their own ideas are not raised so as not to confront the other), evasion (the dispute is acknowledged but there is no intention to face it), cooperation (the parties agree that the relationship is as important as the objectives that each one has) and denial (The parties reach an agreement without giving up what they consider essential but doing so with respect to the less relevant).
On the other hand to the competition that aims at this or that thing it is designated as a dispute.
The other side of the dispute will be the agreement, which implies a pact in harmony between various parties that were discussing an issue.
Disputed Issues